What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

我们成为什么样的人,取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。

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A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

几年的经验会让我们相信,那些发生在我们认为是最大不幸的事情,已经证明是我们最大的福气。

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

因为人们在报纸上读到这些东西,他们认为这是真的。十年前,我刚才提到的所有这些事情都会使我心烦意乱。

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury.

阅读不是奢侈品,艺术也不是奢侈品。这关乎你的灵魂,也关乎你自己。如果说读书是一种奢侈,那么做人也是一种奢侈。

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

一个人过去写过的书会带来两个惊喜:一个人不能再写,也不想再写。

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

当有人通过你的音乐追求音乐时,这是任何人都能得到的最大荣誉。

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

做一个受人喜爱的人是幸运的礼物;但写作和阅读是与生俱来的。

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

我们常常在不知不觉中阅读,以寻求一种比我们自己更有独创性的思想。

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。

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

诗歌能表达我无法表达的东西。我读了很多,但从来没有写过。

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

你读完的一本书和你读之前的那本书不一样。