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Theo wrote to inform their mother: 'Vincent said "I would so like to go" and an hour later he had his wish. Life weighed so heavily on him.' Vincent had found the rest that he could not find on Earth.

Early the following morning, 29 July 1890, he died.
Theo never recovered from the shock. He recorded Vincent's last words: 'la tristesse durera toujours', 'the sadness will last forever'. It had all proved too much for Vincent, who had recently written: 'my life too is attacked at the very root, my step also is faltering'.