"I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends."

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Source: Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his vivid colors and emotional depth, exemplified in works like 'The Starry Night'.

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