It will be best to stick to my work
Vincent van Gogh to his mother, from Saint-Remy, 10 December 1889
Be sure that I think of you often, here where I spend my days more withdrawn into myself than now and then seems to me desirable.
Yet I have decidedly no reason at all to complain, feeling stronger and healthier and quieter than before, and compared with this time last year, when I really had no thought of recovering. Yet I shall always keep on feeling the shock, and it will be best to stick to my work, leaving the rest alone as hardly being compatible with it, and as worrying cannot do much good.
Letter 616
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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Be sure that I think of you often, here where I spend my days more withdrawn into myself than now and then seems to me desirable.
Yet I have decidedly no reason at all to complain, feeling stronger and healthier and quieter than before, and compared with this time last year, when I really had no thought of recovering. Yet I shall always keep on feeling the shock, and it will be best to stick to my work, leaving the rest alone as hardly being compatible with it, and as worrying cannot do much good.
Letter 616
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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On the night of 23 December 1888 in Arles, Vincent took a razor to his ear.
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