If my life were somewhat easier
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, c. 15-27 April 1882
I sometimes think, If my life were somewhat easier, how much more and how much better I should then be able to work! But I do work, and as you must have noticed from my last drawings, I begin to see a light that will conquer the difficulties. But you know that in addition to the exertion of drawing, scarcely a day passes without bringing some difficulty or other which in itself would be hard enough to bear. And, you see, there is a sorrow which I think I don't really deserve - at least I don't know in what way I deserve it - and which I should like to get rid of.
Letter 189
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I sometimes think, If my life were somewhat easier, how much more and how much better I should then be able to work! But I do work, and as you must have noticed from my last drawings, I begin to see a light that will conquer the difficulties. But you know that in addition to the exertion of drawing, scarcely a day passes without bringing some difficulty or other which in itself would be hard enough to bear. And, you see, there is a sorrow which I think I don't really deserve - at least I don't know in what way I deserve it - and which I should like to get rid of.
Letter 189
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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