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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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

我拒绝了第一个剧本和第二个剧本。有一天,我躺在花园里的一把伞下,读着第三本,不知道为什么我拒绝了第一本。

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

如果你有天赋,你可以做任何事情。如果你的心在正确的地方,你对它有激情,你可以去做它。

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

也许天堂将是一个图书馆。然后我就可以完成我的阅读清单了。

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

不被一本书冒犯是非常、非常容易的。你只要把它关上就行了。

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

我不知道在利文沃斯时,我的心为我的人民遭受了多少痛苦。