...suicide, dry bread or beer in Charles Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby, ‘The story of the Baron of Grogzwig’ (chapter 6), Van Gogh is probably referring here to the following passage (headed ‘The genius of despair and suicide...
...I was able to believe that this thought of suicide had haunted Millet’s mind: “Suicide is for dishonest men,” I once heard him say, as if replying to himself...And, afterwards... and his wife and children?.. A fine legacy!” And Millet looked at me.’ (Par deux fois, j’ai pu croire que cette pensée de suicide avait hanté l’esprit de Millet: “Le suicide est d’un malhonnête homme, lui ai-je entendu...
...even now they still laugh at Thijs Maris. I think there’s something as dismal as suicide in that. Why suicide? Because Thijs Maris is such an embodiment of something high and noble that in my view...
...s had such a shock that she won’t lightly try for the second time — a failed suicide is the best remedy for suicide in the future. But if she has a nervous breakdown or brain fever or something...
...suicide et quelque lâche que je sois, je finirais par y aller.– Là, ainsi que tu le verras j’espère, est le joint où il nous est permis de protester contre la société et de nous défendre.
Tu peux être passablement sûr que l’artiste marseillais suicidé ne s’est aucunement suicidé...
...to suicide, and however cowardly I am, I would end up going there. There, as you will see I hope, is the point where we’re permitted to protest against society and to defend ourselves.
You can be reasonably sure that the Marseille artist who committed suicide did not at all commit suicide from...