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Pure or enhanced perception

Background

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh. Ronald de Leeuw selected and ed, Arnold Pomerans trans. Penguin Books, London. 1997

Van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother Theo in 1878 that

"one must never let the fire in one's soul die, for the time will inevitably come when it will be needed. And he who chooses poverty for himself and loves it possesses a great treasure and will hear the voice of his conscience address him every more clearly. He who hears that voice, which is God's greatest gift, in his innermost being and follows it, finds in it a friend at last, and he is never alone! ... That is what all great men have acknowledged in their works, all those who have thought a little more deeply and searched and worked and loved a little more than the rest, who have plumbed the depths of the sea of life."

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