Did Michelangelo really say 'I live in a state of continuous mental torture.'?

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I live in a state of continuous mental torture.

— Michelangelo Early Modern · Sistine Chapel, David

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"I have suffered more than any man ever suffered."

"My joy is not in this world, but in the next."

"I am a man of stone, and I have a heart of stone."

"I am never satisfied with what I do."

"I am a poor man, and I have always been poor."

Letter to his nephew, Lionardo Buonarroti

Date: 1542

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