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.

  • -- John Greenleaf Whittier 惠蒂埃

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。

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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

大多数书,就像它们的作者一样,都是为死亡而生;只有少数几本书能说死亡对它们没有统治权;他们活着,他们的影响永远存在。

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

一个作家每天都会死一点,其中之一就是他的书绝版。

The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.

这本书已经走向世界,世界重新塑造了它。

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

有一天我读了一本书,我的整个生活被改变了。