Vincent van Gogh — "Take our sister Wil, she has neither drunk nor led a wild life, and yet we know …"
Take our sister Wil, she has neither drunk nor led a wild life, and yet we know a photograph of her in which she has the look of a madwoman.
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Letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, discussing alcohol and depression
Date: 1888
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