“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”

—  Vincent Van Gogh, book The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890

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