to endure a crisis in seclusion, The Mechanics of Virtue by Matt Berry, aphorism 28
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I find it best to endure a crisis in seclusion, for others’ sympathetic picking and rubbing of the wound frustrates the healing process. Even in accepting genuine help, one is obliged – recruited into their service at precisely that moment when the opportunity for self-sufficiency was optimal. And then after one has healed, one cannot then be so ungrateful as to ignore a debt for their sympathy ... and to owe someone for something taken from us also picks and rubs....