Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

  • -- Bernard Baruch 巴鲁克

不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友,都不应该被抛弃。

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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

这是我的规则:你总是想支付现金为自己的书,因为如果他们看信用卡上的名字,然后看看这本书的名字夹克,还有这的深刻同情你,你不得不求助于这个。它真的在枯萎。

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

乐观主义的本质是不考虑现在,而是别人已经放弃的灵感、活力和希望的源泉;它能使一个人昂首挺胸,为自己争取未来,而不把未来拱手让给敌人。

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

尽管我们贫穷和经济依赖,但我们不必屈服,这既不是因为我们有时被抛弃,也不是因为一些国家希望强加其经济或政治模式。

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

你若离弃一个信心,就不可离弃一切的信心。对于我们失去的信仰,总有另一种选择。还是同样的信仰戴着另一副面具?

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

这对我来说是一个悖论,我唯一知道怎么做的就是演戏,但我在写作时放弃的第一件事是角色。

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

在我的任何一本书的任何一页上,愿生命完美地记述我对世界的秘密体验。