This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

  • -- Michael Ondaatje 迈克尔·翁达杰

这是她一生中唯一一次把书本作为走出牢房的门。他们成了她的半个世界。

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

当你老了,头发花白,睡意朦胧,在炉火旁打盹时,请取下这本书,慢慢地读,梦见你曾经眼神柔和,阴影深沉。

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

他明白,有时候你会一头扎进书里,仿佛每一页都是另一个世界的一个洞。

I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

我喜欢一切古老的东西:老朋友、旧时代、旧礼节、旧书、旧酒。

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

追求卓越,而不是完美,因为我们并不生活在一个完美的世界里。

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

你永远找不到一杯足够大的茶或一本书足够长来适合我。

No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.

没有作家是一个安静的读者,因为他们的阅读将谈论他们的写作。

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

我们是蚁丘世界上的蚁丘人。

I talk to the universe all the time.

我一直在和宇宙说话。