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In a letter to his father, whom he had written from Florence asking for money, he wrote:
"I lead a miserable existence. I live wearied by stupendous labours and beset
by a thousand anxieties. And thus have I lived for some fifteen years
(as an artist) and never an hour's happiness have I had."

from the book
"Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling"