I believe that certainly it’s better to bring up children than to expend all one’s nervous energy in making paintings, but what can you do, I myself am now - at least I feel I am - too old to retrace my steps, or to desire something else.
This desire has left me, although the moral pain of it remains.
I very much regret not having seen Guillaumin again. But it pleases me that he has seen my canvases. If I’d waited for him, I would probably have stayed to talk with him in such a way as to miss my train.
Wishing you luck and good heart and relative prosperity, please tell Mother and Sister sometime that I think of them very often, besides this morning I have a letter from them and will reply shortly.
Handshakes in thought.
Ever yours,
Vincent
van Gogh-brief
(10 juli 1890)
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