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Vicent Van Gogh, The Starry Night
The life of Van Gogh was consecutive suffering and distress ; successive failure of relations, discord with family, frustration from being priest, despair from not achieving artistic success, and poverty.The life of Van Gogh was consecutive suffering and distress ; successive failure of relations, discord with family, frustration from being a priest, despair from not achieving artistic success, and poverty. - was Van Gogh a priest? Or did you mean something else?
Finally, in 1889, he headed for a psychiatric hospital in Saint Lemy soon after he cut his ear himself in the extreme mental disorder.
He might have tried to describe his sense of insecurity, and desperate wish for rest gained by death through the tree. Gogh said “The night sky, the magnificent sky having stars is ultimately God or the world of eternity itself.” “Why can I not reach the shining stars, to go to Rouen? As we have to get on the train to travel to Rouen , we die to arrive at the stars.” It seemed that he thought death was the only way to stars, the eternal world. At last, Gogh killed himself in 1890, and his painful short life of 37years ended. - I wasn't sure how to correct that especially as it's a quote from Van Gogh but I googled it and saw an English translation given as 'Why, I ask myself, shouldn’t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take a train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star.'
Very well written!
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