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Updated: May 24, 2025

She learned that quiet and darkness, and, it seemed, fasting, dulled the edge of the pain and shortened its duration, and that nothing else did as much. There was another art student in Rome-a fine, poor American who, too, was studying art because he loved it. How they could have helped each other! They both knew it.

Robert S. Carroll - Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness