To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.
Vincent Van Gogh
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"But I am so angry with myself now because I cannot do what I should like to do, and at such a moment one feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep, dark well, utterly helpless."
- Vincent Van Gogh, from the letter he sent to his brother Theo on January 26, 1882
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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)
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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning." - Vincent Van Gogh
Painting: "Wheatfield with a Reaper" by Vincent van Gogh
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
Vincent van Gogh
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I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.
Vincent van Gogh, Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.
– Gustave Flaubert
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I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away
Vincent Van Gogh
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— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
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