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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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

把我从那些说他们的生活方式不重要的作家那里解救出来。我不确定一个坏人能写一本好书,如果艺术不能让我们变得更好,那么它到底是为了什么。

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

人生而孤独,死而孤独;他独自经历了因果报应的善与恶;他一个人去地狱或至尊居所。

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

冥想不需要结果。冥想本身可以作为一个目的,我冥想没有语言和虚无。困扰我一生的是写作。

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

许多书不需要读者思考,原因很简单;他们并没有对写信的人提出这样的要求。

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

欲望是一切成就的起点,不是希望,不是愿望,而是一种超越一切的强烈的脉动的欲望。

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

除了每天穿多少件干净的衬衫之外,还有其他衡量一个男人自尊的标准。

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.

我脑子里的声音不停,所以我让他们写他们的故事。

Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine.

只要轻轻地拿着书,你就会相处得很好。

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

我不想破坏一个男人的世界。