“Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, gen…”

“Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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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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