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Black hardcover journal, front: “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” Seneca, in Roman capitals.
Quiet Torment journal open to the inside back cover, showing the expandable pocket.
Quiet Torment journal open flat to cream lined pages with the ribbon marker.

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”Seneca · Quote Journal

In March you wrote down everything you were afraid of. Read it now. Almost none of it happened.

Fears grow in the dark. On paper, they shrink.

Hardcover, 5.5″ × 8.5″. 80 lined, cream pages, an elastic closure, a ribbon marker and an expandable pocket inside the back cover.

Write the worry down. Check back in a month.

$30
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Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII. Translated by Richard M. Gummere, 1917.

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