Thursday, June 17, 2021

Genuine affection

Do you know what makes the prison disappear?
Every deep, genuine affection.
Being friends, being brothers, loving,
that is what opens the prison,
with supreme power, by some magic force.
Without these one stays dead.
But whenever affection is revived,
there life revives.

             Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo 

 

 

 

 

 

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