Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

不要像孩子那样,为了自娱自乐而读书,也不要像有抱负的人那样,为了受教育而读书。不,为了生活而读书。

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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

当你看到一座城市的时候,就像读到每一个建造它的人的希望、抱负和自豪。

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

私人生活,书本生活,发生在文字与想象相遇的地方,而不需要经过这个世界。

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

最值得同情的人是一个下雨天不会读书的寂寞的人。

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

没有图书馆,我们还有什么?我们没有过去,也没有未来。