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"Looking into the grey-green sea with the long white lines of the waves"

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"Looking into the grey-green sea with the long white lines of the waves"

Alexander Verbeek 🌍
Dec 4, 2022
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The island’s beach today around noon (Photo: AV)

Vincent van Gogh

In 1882, Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: "How much good it does a person if one is in a gloomy mood to walk on the empty beach and look into the grey-green sea with the long white lines of the waves."

Today, I was on the beach but not in a gloomy mood. Of course, my spirit is sel…

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