VAN GOGH VINCENT (1853-1890).

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VAN GOGH VINCENT (1853-1890).
L.A.S. "Vincent", [Saint-Rémy de Provence January 20, 1890], to Mr. and Mrs. GINOUX, Café de la Gare, in Arles; 4 pages in- 8 (a few light stains, cracks in the folds well repaired); red half-maroquin folder with flaps. Very beautiful and moving letter on the disease, to his friends Ginoux. [Joseph and Marie GINOUX owned the Café de la Gare in Arles, place Lamartine, where Van Gogh had his habits; Vincent painted Ginoux's portrait, and several versions of Mme GInoux (L'Arlésienne)]. Both he and Mme Ginoux were ill at the same times, a year ago, and now "just around Christmas, for a few days I was again this year quite ill. However, it was over very quickly; I didn't have a week's worth. Since, therefore, my dear friends, we sometimes suffer together, it makes me think of what Madame Ginoux says - "When we are friends we are friends for a long time". I believe that the annoyances we experience in the ordinary train of life do us at least as much good as harm. What we fall ill with today, overwhelmed with discouragement, gives us the energy, once the illness is over, to get up and want to get well the next day. I assure you that the other year it almost upset me to get well - to get better for a more or less long time - continuing to dread relapses [...] I have often told myself that I would prefer that there was nothing more and that it was over. But yes - we are not the masters of our existence and it seems to be a matter of learning to want to live again, even in pain. Hey, I feel so loose in this. Health coming back even I still dread. Then who am I to encourage the others will say to me as of right that does not suit me hardly "... He fervently hopes for the recovery of Mrs. Ginoux. "For me, the illness has done me good - it would be ungrateful not to admit it; it has calmed me down and very different from what I had imagined this year I have been luckier than I had dared to hope. But if I hadn't been so well looked after, if people hadn't been as good to me as they have been, I think I would have snapped or lost my mind completely. Business is business and duty is duty, so it is only fitting that I return soon to see my brother, but it will be painful for me to leave the south"... He thanks his friends for sending him olives, which were excellent, and renews his wishes for his recovery. "The illnesses are there to make us remember that we are not made of wood, that is what seems to me the good side of all that. Afterwards, we went back to our daily work, fearing less the annoyances with a new supply of serenity. And even when we part, we will still say to ourselves: "and when we are friends we are friends for a long time", because here is the way to be able to leave each other ". http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let842/ letter.html
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