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“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh
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Context

Quote in his Letter (no. 155), June 1880; published in the online version of "Vincent van Gogh – The Letters; The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition". Retrieved 29 July 2014

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Gogh, Vincent van. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

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