I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

  • -- Joseph Conrad 约瑟夫·康拉德

我把书塞进口袋。我向你保证,停止阅读就像从一段古老而牢固的友谊的庇护下挣脱出来。

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

在所有的教授都为我们尽了最大的努力之后,我们获得知识的地方就是书本。当今真正的大学是一所藏书的大学。

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

亚细亚信条对我来说是轻松易懂的阅读,与现在许多被认为是科学的东西相比。

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

我现在学到的一件事是,在我确定我知道之前,我不应该说什么时候有一本书要出版。