A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
把好句子，读进生活里。
一句英文，一种视角。慢慢读，总有一句与你共鸣。
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
做好一件事的回报是已经做了。
A bad relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.
一段糟糕的感情会让你感到比单身时更孤独。
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
谁打开了一扇学校的门，谁就关闭了一座监狱。
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
一幅好画等于一件好事。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的，书并不是自然奇观，而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候，我感到既震惊又失望。
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.
设计是我的爱好。如果我不做我所做的事情来谋生——在某种程度上，当我不做这些事情来谋生时——我可能只会做设计工作。我喜欢找到真正特别的家具。
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
就我们的政治利益而言，我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书，在他所处的环境中，读书是如此的容易，以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
一个好的艺术家应该被孤立。如果他没有被孤立，那一定是出了什么问题。
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
艺术家的世界是无限的。它可以在任何地方找到，远离他住的地方或几英尺远。它总是在他的门阶上。
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
一切深刻的东西都是简单的，只要保持对整个真理的参照，就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智，而是真实。
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
我喜欢一切古老的东西——老朋友、旧时代、旧礼节、旧书、旧酒。
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
创造性的本质在于它的新颖性，因此我们没有判断它的标准。