Reasons to Stay Alive 节选02

"Reasons to Stay Alive" Quotes
By Matt Haig

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

节选自《活下去的理由》
作者：马特·海格

最重要的是，书本。本身就是活下去的理由。每本书的写作都是一个人类心智在特定状态下的产物。将所有书籍汇集在一起，你就得到了人类的终极总和。每次我读到一本伟大的书时，我都感觉自己在读一种地图，一张藏宝图，而实际上，这张地图指引的宝藏就是我自己。