I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。

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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'

我厌倦了阅读关于重生的书籍,因为我们都在不断地成长,如果你说“我是一个新人”,那么你的人生就会被缩短。

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

太热了,伙计。我不愿想到这种书会落到坏人手里。我一做完这件事,就建议他们禁止它。

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

伟大的著作之所以伟大,部分原因在于它们对读者提出的要求:它们不容易遇到,也不容易评估。

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

如果一个人有良好的性格,还需要什么其他的美德?人若有名声,其馀的妆饰还有什么价值呢?

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

我的艺术来自于我想要拥有这个世界上原本不会存在的东西的欲望。

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

爱不是选择性的,欲望是选择性的。爱情里没有陌生人。

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

如果我总能读书,我就永远不会感到缺少陪伴。

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

女人想把爱情写成小说。男人,一个短篇故事。

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

散文是建筑,巴洛克时代已经结束。

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

没有人能伤害不做错事的人。