But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap β¨ Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, p.167, Simon and Schuster
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