"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"
对物品过于在意会毁了你。只是——如果你足够在意某样东西，它就会拥有自己的生命，不是吗？而美丽的东西的全部意义——不就是它们将你与某种更大的美联系起来吗？
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
心碎了又碎，却因破碎而存活。
拖延乃光阴之窃贼。
La buena literatura es eternamente subversiva.
"The line between good and evil runs through every human heart."
The heart is a fragile thing, easily broken, but also capable of great strength.