A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
如果你知道去哪里找，图书馆可以给你展示所有的东西。
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
在印刷术出现之前，书籍基本上是奢侈品。
If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.
如果一本书不能自我解释，那么它就不值得一读。
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
没有图书馆，我们还有什么?我们没有过去，也没有未来。
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
我的完美读者不只是读书——他或她会狼吞虎咽地读书。
The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.
圣经所造成的危害比世界上任何一本书都要大。
Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
现在我们都很聪明，我们不容易找到决心。
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
阳光教会你把生活变成欢乐的散步。
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
要么所有的灯都关了，要么一个内部的灯不见了。
You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
你会发现大多数值得读的书都值得读两遍。
The mind is like an unsafe neighbourhood. Don't go there alone.
思想就像一个不安全的邻居。不要一个人去那里。
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
再次走进图书馆感觉真好;闻起来像家。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
即使在文学和艺术领域，也没有人为原创而烦恼的人永远不会是原创的。相反，如果你只是想说真话(不在乎别人告诉你多少次)，十有八九你会在没有注意到的情况下变得原创。
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
所有的好书都有一个共同点——它们都比真实发生过的书更真实。
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。
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
书是最好的东西，用得好;被虐待，在最糟糕的…它们只是用来鼓舞人心的。
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
经典是一本永远没有把它要说的话说完的书。
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
那些被世界称为不道德的书，是那些让世界感到羞耻的书。