Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

  • -- Anthony Dymoke Powell 安东尼·戴莫克·鲍威尔

文学只对那些把书当作必需品的人照亮生活。

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To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

关心文字,与文字有利害关系,相信书籍的力量——这压倒了其他一切,与之相比,一个人的生命变得非常渺小。

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

的经典。这是一本人们赞美却不读的书。