Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
“A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.”
— Axel Munthe, book The Story of San Michele
Preface, 1928
The Story of San Michele (1929)
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