A certain barricade
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Nuenen, September 1884
I always regret, Theo, that I am standing on one side of a certain barricade, you on the other, which barricade is not actually visible any more as a structure of paving stones, but which certainly does exist socially, and will continue to do so.
In that lithograph by Daumier or Lemud, whichever it may be, the principal subject is a person whose story I remember.
There were two brothers, and they were standing on the same side, and both were killed one after the other, for the same cause.
That might have occurred in our case, but now I am almost sure it will never happen. I, for my part, know well enough that the future will always remain very difficult for me, and I am almost sure that in the future I shall never be what people call prosperous.
Letter 380
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I always regret, Theo, that I am standing on one side of a certain barricade, you on the other, which barricade is not actually visible any more as a structure of paving stones, but which certainly does exist socially, and will continue to do so.
In that lithograph by Daumier or Lemud, whichever it may be, the principal subject is a person whose story I remember.
There were two brothers, and they were standing on the same side, and both were killed one after the other, for the same cause.
That might have occurred in our case, but now I am almost sure it will never happen. I, for my part, know well enough that the future will always remain very difficult for me, and I am almost sure that in the future I shall never be what people call prosperous.
Letter 380
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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