The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

故事是作者写给自己的信，用来告诉自己那些无法以其他方式发现的事情。

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

我们都是生命之书中的章节。

You have to be willing to fail to succeed.