It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

  • -- Jules Renard 儒勒·列那尔

当我们面对死亡的时候,我们才会变得书生气十足。

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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里,也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

你也不会,如果你是在一个言情小说的图书馆里长大的。

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

如果我们遇到一个智力超群的人,我们应该问他读什么书。

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

甚至坏书也是书,因此是神圣的。