The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
科学家研究自然并非因为它有用;他研究它是因为他从中获得乐趣,而他从中获得乐趣是因为它是美丽的。
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion which is encoded in the details.