| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15f4d01 | Vincent took them in the full spirit of friendship which knows that the difference between giving and taking is purely temporal. | giving taking van-gogh | Irving Stone | |
| f355345 | Sometimes I think that just as trains and carriages are means of locomotion to get us from one place to another on this earth, so typhoid and consumption are means of locomotion to get us from one world to another. | life locomotion van-gogh | Irving Stone | |
| 779ad15 | "These workers," said Mendes with a gentle sweep of his arm, "have a hard life of it. When illness comes they have no money for a doctor. The food for tomorrow comes from today's labour, and hard labour it is, too. Their houses, as you see, are small and poor; they are never more than a stone's throw away from privation and want. They've made a bad bargain with life; they need the thought of God to comfort them." | illness god van-gogh | Irving Stone |