Working very hard and ceaselessly
Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh, from Saint-Remy, 20 December 1889
I'm adding a word to you in great haste; it is exactly a year ago that I had that attack; I have no reason to complain too much, as things are going better with me at the moment, but it is to be feared that it will come back from time to time. And this leaves the head in a latent state of sensibility.
I have been working very hard and ceaselessly for two weeks.
Life is not always very gay here, and my companions in distress are very often bored, but there is much resignation and patience here. But many of them are doing nothing, and remain absorbed in thought all day long, and now and then I feel inclined to believe that they would be better off in an asylum where manual labor was obligatory.
Letter W18
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I'm adding a word to you in great haste; it is exactly a year ago that I had that attack; I have no reason to complain too much, as things are going better with me at the moment, but it is to be feared that it will come back from time to time. And this leaves the head in a latent state of sensibility.
I have been working very hard and ceaselessly for two weeks.
Life is not always very gay here, and my companions in distress are very often bored, but there is much resignation and patience here. But many of them are doing nothing, and remain absorbed in thought all day long, and now and then I feel inclined to believe that they would be better off in an asylum where manual labor was obligatory.
Letter W18
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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