“Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.”

—  Vincent Van Gogh

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)

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