22 letters found 127 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Saturday, 18 August 1877. in translation : ...recommends to those on the verge of committing suicide as being very efficacious in ridding them of...
in note 12 : ...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 ...
244 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 6 July 1882. in original text : ...il m’a toujours semblé que le suicide etait une action de malhonnête homme”.–
De leegheid...
in translation : ...père Millet: ‘It has always seemed to me that suicide is the act of a dishonest man’.
The...
...to have my own household, that would be suicide . That’s why I say — onward — despite dark...
in note 10 : ...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...
259 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 26 August 1882. in note 8 : ...breaks off the relationship. Albine then commits suicide by stupefying herself in her sleep with an...
274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882. in note 10 : ...no hope of earning a living, Tassaert committed suicide , using the same type of coal stove he had depicted...
318 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Tuesday, 20 or Wednesday, 21 February 1883. in translation : ...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...
363 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883. in note 21 : ...happiness is shattered when his ex-love is admitted to the hospital and dies. Barnier then commits suicide .
377 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 20 August 1883. in note 5 : ...by his circle in every respect, he commits suicide . His business partner is Georges Fromont (Fromont...
379 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 23 and about Wednesday, 29 August 1883. in note 5 : ...correctly: on 12 November 1904 she was to commit suicide by jumping into the water; see Hulsker 1993-2, p...
401 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Wednesday, 31 October 1883. in translation : ...nor I must ever do that, any more than a suicide . I myself also have my moments of great melancholy...
433 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Sunday, 2 March 1884. in original text : ...welnu – ’t ware welligt de moeite waard een suicide te doen op die wijs.
Als echter de kaars...
in translation : ...then — it might well be worthwhile committing suicide that way.
If, though, the candle itself...
456 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884. in translation : ...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...
in date note : ...the letter only a few days after Margot’s suicide attempt. In letter 458, which was most probably...
in note 4 : ...developed, as he himself says in letter 469. The suicide attempt must have happened a few days before Van...
457 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 16 September 1884. in original text : ...zou uithooren of gij iets weet van poging tot suicide , houd U dan maar leuk. Doch dit zal trouwens...
in translation : ...as to whether you know anything about an attempted suicide , just stay cool. But anyway, no one will...
in note 4 : ...Eventually Emma gets into debt, sees her life as hopeless and commits suicide by taking arsenic.
568 Vincent van Gogh and Andries Bonger to Theo van Gogh. Paris, on or about Wednesday, 18 August 1886. in translation : ...rushing her you could simply either provoke her to suicide or send her mad, and the effect of that...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888. in original text : ...autres – est une erreur si c’est compliqué de suicide – vu que vraiment dans ce cas on fait...
in translation : ...is a mistake if it’s complicated by suicide — since in that case one truly makes murderers of...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888. in note 14 : ...forced Jundt to stop working and he committed suicide (see also letter 776, n. 18). Brady says that the...
672 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 1 September 1888. in note 8 : ...people. The book is indeed not very comforting: Astier-Réhu, the central character, commits suicide .
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888. in original text : ...Aujourd’hui sur l’Intransigeant je vois le suicide de M. Bing Levy. Pas possible que ce soit le...
in translation : ...turned 35.
I see in L’Intransigeant today the suicide of Mr Bing Lévy. Not possible, is it, that...
in date note : ...Van Gogh had read the report of Lévy-Bing’s suicide in L’Intransigeant (ll. 53-54). This was...
in note 9 : ...Lévy-Bing had killed himself. The report ‘Le suicide de M. Lévy Bing’ in L’Intransigeant of 8...
707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888. in note 10 : ...La glu (1881) is a melodramatic novel about the suicide of a prostitute. There is also a stage adaptation...
764 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, between about Sunday, 28 April and Thursday, 2 May 1889. in original text : ...remède que l’incomparable Dickens prescrit contre le suicide . Cela consiste en un verre de vin...
in translation : ...the remedy that the incomparable Dickens prescribes against suicide . It consists of a glass of wine...
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889. in original text : ...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 ...
in translation : ...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...
in note 4 : ...The artist from Marseille who had committed suicide (Van Gogh mentions him later in the letter) is...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889. in note 25 : ...was no doubt connected with the ‘ideas of suicide ’ mentioned by Dr Peyron (see Documentation, On...
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889. in translation : ...now like someone who, having wanted to commit suicide , finding the water too cold, tries to catch...
...it’s like the man who wants to commit suicide , and finding the water too cold he struggles to...
3 essay items found Correspondents / Preservation of the letters ...reached its pitch with Margot’s attempted suicide , according to Van Gogh because people spoke...
Biographical & historical context / The immediate family circle ...a volunteer in the Boer War. He committed suicide in 1900. Cor van Gogh (Amsterdam, Van Gogh...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Manuscripts ...Vincent had with him when he tried to commit suicide Theo wrote: ‘Lettre qu’il portait sur lui...
No bibliographic items found 1 other item found Chronology in 1884 : ...October Margot tries to commit suicide and is taken to a doctor in Utrecht. Vincent...
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