Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  • -- Arthur Schopenhauer 亚瑟·叔本华

买书是一件好事,如果你还能买到时间来阅读的话:但是一般来说,买书会被误认为是占用了书的内容。

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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

也许还有另一本水门事件的书。我曾想过写一本关于水门事件余波及其影响的书,或许由我或其他人来完成。

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.

旅行是一个很好的时间来赶上我的阅读。在陌生的地方很难入睡,但是一本好书总能让你更容易入睡。

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

我的态度变了,但总有人要读我所有的书,才能知道我的书是怎么写的。

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

如果你没有时间把事情做好,你什么时候有时间把它重新做一遍?

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

最古老的书仍然只对那些没有读过的人开放。

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days.

时间可以打开他那快速的沙漏,告诉我们日子。

What we call life is only talk of nature.

我们所谓的生活只是谈论自然。