The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

  • -- Aiden Wilson Tozer 陶恕

最好的书不只是提供信息,而是激发读者去了解自己。

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I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.

我读过这本书,也很喜欢它,但是当我试着把自己想象成这个角色的时候,我真的很不舒服。这个人似乎是每一个完美男人的化身。

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

书的精华不在于它所包含的思想,而在于它所暗示的思想;正如音乐的魅力不在于它的音调,而在于我们心灵的共鸣。

The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real

无论你多么努力地让自己相信他不是真实的,你都能感觉到自己爱上了这样的英雄

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

我不记得读过的书,就像我不记得吃过的饭一样;即便如此,他们还是让我这么做了。

I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

我不介意穿紧身胸衣,它能告诉你的姿势,改变你的运动方式,你不能无精打采。

I guess there are never enough books.

我想书总是不够。