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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

  • -- Caroline Gordon 卡罗琳·戈登

一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。

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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

我没有任何学术背景，但我住在一个大学城，我认识一些人，他们并非没有伪装。镇上有个想法，如果是欧洲的东西就好了。

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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

我死后，报纸上可能会有一两段。我的名字将会出现在大英博物馆阅览室的目录中，在一长串无人问询的书单的最前面。

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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

关心文字，与文字有利害关系，相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切，与之相比，一个人的生命变得非常渺小。

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Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

天赋是一个水龙头。当它打开时，人们必须写。灵感是诗人为了显示自己的重要性而发明的一场闹剧。

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Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

写作不是撒谎，也不是偷窃。这是一段旅程，在一个人的话语和灵魂之间寻找透明度。

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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

我们不需要魔法来改变我们的世界。我们内心已经拥有了所有我们需要的力量。

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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

真理从来不会来到这个世界上，而是像一个私生子一样，带着她出生的那个人的耻辱来到这个世界上。

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This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

这就是魔法的作用。把自己扔进深渊，发现那是个羽绒床。

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