Vincent van Gogh:

Such a person doesn't always know himself what he could do, but he feels by instinct, I'm good for something, even so! I feel I have a raison d'être! I know that I could be a quite different man! For what then could I be of use, for what could I serve! There's something within me, so what is it! That's an entirely different idler; you may, if you think fit, take me for such a one.

— Vincent van Gogh Modern

Post-impressionist painter

Context

Letter to his brother Theo van Gogh

Date / Period

1882

Source

https://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let220/letter.html

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