“Now for the past five years or so, I don't know how long exactly, I have been more or less without permanent employment, wandering from pillar to post. You will say, ever since such and such a time you have been going downhill, you have been feeble, you have done nothing. Is that entirely true?”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

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