If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

  • -- Francois Mauriac 莫里亚克

如果你想告诉我一个人的心,不要告诉我他读了什么,而要告诉我他重读了什么。

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In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

就人们对我的看法而言,它可以分为两类:一类是通过阅读报纸认识我的人,另一类是通过阅读我的书认识我的人。

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

爱,无论是新生的,还是从死亡般的沉睡中唤醒的,都必须创造阳光,使心灵充满光辉,洋溢在外部世界。

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

今天剩下的时间我都在听别人的故事。在我把书放下的那些难得的时刻,我自己的痛苦又回到了刺痛的感觉中。

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下,它们会永远等你;关注他们,他们也会爱你。

When I am alone for too long, my mind starts to wander and my heart gets into trouble.

当我独处太久,我的思想开始漫游,我的心陷入麻烦。

I cannot live without reading.

我的生活离不开阅读。