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Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.
每一本书都是独立的，就像一个家庭的房子，但是图书馆里的书就像城市里的房子。尽管它们相互独立，但结合起来后便产生了意义；它们彼此相连，与其他城市相连。相同的思想或相关的思想出现在不同的地方；一再困扰人类生活的问题也在文学作品里反复出现，只是不同时代的著作呈现了不同的锦囊妙计。
