文学是一种面对无法言说之事的方式，为无声者发声。

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

There are other reasons --There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.