A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
图书
Books
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
阅读是进入另一个人的意识。
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
为什么人们不能坐下来读书，对彼此好一点呢?
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
我们用几乎必要的自负来衡量一切。
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
最好的故事不是来自“好与坏”，而是“好与好”。
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
一个大的愿望并不足以满足失去梦想的期望。
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
当我们不得不呆在原地的时候，阅读给了我们一个地方去。
Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
书不能改变人;段落可以，有时甚至是句子。
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
我总是在口袋里放两本书，一本用来读，一本用来写。
My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
我最好的朋友会给我一本我没读过的书。
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
世界是一本书，不旅行的人只读其中的一页。
All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.
所有的书都应该是三部曲;我的意思是我们都同意这一点。
I wanted a library like this… A cave of words that I'd made myself.
我想要一个像这样的图书馆，一个我自己创造的文字洞穴。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
有些书让我们自由，有些书让我们自由。
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
养成读书的习惯，就是为自己建造一个避难所，使自己免受生活中几乎所有的不幸。
A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.
一本没有文字的书，就像一场没有吻的爱情;它是空的。
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
我声明，毕竟没有什么享受像阅读!一个人对任何事情的厌倦都比厌倦一本书快得多!
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友，都不应该被抛弃。
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。