is that absolutely neccessary?

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

It's so fascinating to me that we have books from ancient times and from centuries long gone. The mere fact that people preserved them is mindblowing to me. It is something i can not wrap my mind around, that we have the privilege to read something that hundreds of generations have read and loved. To open a book like that doesn't only take you to another world but another time period entirely.