Fame

Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, 3 September 1888

I have finished L'Immortel by Daudet. I rather like the saying of the sculptor Vedrine, that to achieve fame is something like ramming the lighted end of your cigar into your mouth when you are smoking.

Letter 531
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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