The personal is historical, and the historical is personal.
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go."
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
一本书就是你握在手中的一个梦想。