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What is done in love is done well. — Vincent van Gogh · Smartyfair

What is done in love is done well.

Vincent van Gogh1853–1890 · artist · 1800s Netherlands & FranceVincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who created bold, swirling paintings full of bright color and feeling, like The Starry Night.7 quotes

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Anything you do with love, you do properly.

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What turned up: Letter to Theo van Gogh, Amsterdam, 3 April 1878 — cited in The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886 (1927)
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