The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

那些被世界称为不道德的书,是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

当我们阅读一个故事时,我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的,因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。

She showed the world, not just me but everyone, what one person can do, ... She is one person who sparked a movement whose ripples are still being felt, not just all over the country, but all over the world.

她向全世界展示了,不仅仅是我,而是每个人,一个人能做什么……她引发了一场运动,其影响至今仍在,不仅在全国,而且在全世界。

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。

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

(小说和诗歌)是药物,它们是剂量,它们治愈了现实对想象的破坏。

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

文学可以提醒我们,并非所有的人生都已被记录下来:还有那么多故事等着我们去讲述。

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

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。

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

天才使我们对自己的能力充满无限的信心。

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

世界上最好的颜色是适合你的颜色。

Despair has its own calms.

绝望有它自己的平静。