"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
过去从未死去,它甚至还没有过去。
永远不要成为房间里最聪明的人;如果你是,那么你进错了房间。
The darkness within us is what makes us human. Acknowledging it is the first step towards true strength.