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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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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

在图书馆里，我感觉好多了，你可以信任的词，你可以看着它们直到你理解它们，它们不会像人一样在句子中间改变，所以更容易识破谎言。

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Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism.

没有什么东西是存在的，除非你，我，或一些生物感知到它，以及它如何被感知到，从而进一步影响那个现实。甚至时间本身也不能免于生物中心主义。

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Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

一旦你读了太多垃圾畅销书，你就会开始寻找一些有实质内容的东西，一些试图定义宇宙的东西。

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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

真正的敬虔并没有把人赶出这个世界，而是使他们能更好地生活在这个世界上，并激励他们努力去修补这个世界。

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My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

我的父母都全职工作。我记得很多简单的饭菜。我所知道的关于烹饪的一切都是自学的。

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

世界上有三样东西不值得怜悯:虚伪、欺诈和暴政。

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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

小便就像一本好书，一旦开始就很难停下来。

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The public library is where place and possibility meet.

公共图书馆是地点和可能性相遇的地方。

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