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all these mutilated men were lying on their
stretchers silent with set teeth?
At last the storm abated. All was silent as
before in the old tower, I was alone with my fear.
Man was built to carry his own cross, that is
why he was given his strong shoulders. 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. I was told at St. Dunstan’s
that he can even live without light, but those
who told me so were heroes. But a man cannot
live without sleep. When I ceased to sleep I
began to write this book, all milder remedies
having failed. It has been a great success so far
as I am concerned. Over and over again I have
blessed Henry James for his advice. I have
been sleeping much better of late. It has even
been a pleasure to me to write this book, I no
longer wonder why so many people are taking to
writing books in our days. Unfortunately I
have been writing the Story of San Michele under
peculiar difficulties. I was interrupted at the
very beginning by an unexpected visitor who
sat down opposite to me at the writing table and
began to talk about himself and his own affairs
in the most erratic manner, as if all this nonsense
could interest anybody but himself. There was
something very irritating and un-English in the
way he kept on relating his various adventures
where he always seemed to turn out to have
been the hero—too much Ego in your Cosmos,
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