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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And I, Sir, I’ll never have a mistress as beautiful as those in the pictures of obscene books!

而我,先生,我永远也不会有一个情妇像那些下流书上的情人那么漂亮!

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

最近,我觉得我的生活是一本用我不懂的语言写成的书。

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.

我想拉下一本书,把它打开,一页又一页地狼吞虎咽。

The stitch of a book is its words.

书的针脚在于它的文字。