Lust for Life
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:55:02
If they interfere with your peace to work,
you cut them off...

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and you spend the rest of your life
wondering if it was worthwhile.

:55:12
If they're mad enough
to buy Impressionist paintings...

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it only proves that they're savages.
:55:20
I haven't seen the place looking so neat
since Vincent came to stay here.

:55:23
What got into him, cleaning it up like this?
:55:28
I do hope he's out.
:55:30
Never would get any business done
if he's in.

:55:37
What is it?
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It's from Vincent.
:55:42
"I'm sorry for the trouble I've caused you,
and endlessly...

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"grateful for all your kindness.
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"I've hung a few paintings
to remind you of me."

:55:49
- He's gone?
- He's on his way south to Arles, Provence.

:55:54
"I've thought it over
these past few weeks...

:55:56
"and decided the time has come
to make a change.

:55:59
"I want to see nature under a clearer sky.
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"Have to work by myself for a while."
:56:06
No offense meant, but you'll be better off
without him around your neck.

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I think I'm the best judge of that.
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No, the worst.
You've been pushing his paintings.

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And every time you do that,
we lose a customer.

:56:17
As your employer,
I tell you for your own good...

:56:19
your love for Vincent has blinded
your judgment. It's affected your work.

:56:22
Please don't let's wrangle again
about that.

:56:24
I'll fight for every good painter
who deserves to be recognized...

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and Vincent is one of them.
He could be the best of them.

:56:30
What? Well, you're his brother.
:56:33
- You're emotional about him.
- That has nothing to do with it.

:56:36
What is it when you brood about him?
When you agonize over his every failure?

:56:40
When you support him
to the point of denying yourself?

:56:43
You've saved every letter he wrote
as though it were Holy Scripture.

:56:47
Come now, Theo. Don't you really think
you've done enough for him?

:56:52
How much is enough...
:56:55
for a man who's struggling with himself
the way Vincent is?

:56:58
I know he's crude, quarrelsome,
and excitable...


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