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Article source | Stefan Zweig

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Arrangement of this issue | Liu Xinrui

There is a clock ticking somewhere. But here time has transcended itself, it cannot be squeezed in. To calculate the hours, there is another algorithm. Here are books whose words have wandered for centuries before their words reached our lips; here are young people who were born only yesterday and grew up yesterday out of the confusion and misery of a hairless child: but They speak a magical language. Whether it is this one or that one, it shakes our breath and makes our hearts surge. Moreover, while they excite you, they also comfort you; while they seduce you, they also calm your newly aroused desires. So you gradually immerse yourself in them, and you will calm down, experience it, and float calmly in their melody, in the world that belongs to them on the other side of this world.

You are the purest when you are reading. You are free from the hustle and bustle of the day; Shu, you are the most loyal and taciturn companions. You are always ready to obey orders at any time. Your existence is permanent preservation and endless encouragement. How grateful I am to you! In the darkest days when the soul is lonely, what do you mean? In field hospitals, in military camps, in prisons, and on the sickbed, you are everywhere, you are always guarding, you give people illusions, and you are irritable and anxious. Give people a piece of peace in the midst of pain! Whenever souls are buried in mortal life, you, God's gentle magnet, can always attract them away and return them to their own essential elements. Whenever it is gloomy and dim, you always give us the inner feelings. The sky expands into the distance.

Your little bodies, endless, quietly lined up against an unadorned wall. You stand in our house like this and are inconspicuous. However, once hands free you, once a heart touches you, you will invisibly break through the room of daily work; your words will be like driving a hot vehicle, carrying us out of the narrow situation and driving into eternal.

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