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Here's an answer to a question we mid-class citizens always ask, with all the money rich people spend, how come they only seem to be getting richer instead of the opposite.

This episode is on VAN GOGH'S LETTERS To Emile Bernard - April 1888. The imagination is certainly a faculty which we must develop, one which alone can lead us to the creation of a more exalting and consoling nature than the single brief glance at reality - which in our sight is ever changing, passing like a flash of lightning - can let us perceive. A starry sky, for example. See, that's a thing I'd like to try to do, just as by day I want to try to paint a green meadow spangled with starry dandelions. Yet how can I do it, unless I work it out at home, and from my imagination? Of course, this faults my idea while yours gets praised. ... reality - which in our sight is ever changing, passing like a flash of lightning - can let us perceive. A starry sky, for example. See, that's a thing I'd like to try to do, just as by day I want to try to paint a green meadow spangled with starry dandelions...