A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Books
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
我喜欢书籍，就像守财奴喜欢财宝一样，因为我知道我可以随时享受它们。
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
在作家家中一片寂静之中，躺着一位病人:他正在写书。
Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
挑选五本你最喜欢的书就像挑选你最不想失去的五个身体部位。
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
这就是使一个年轻作家失去理智的原因，那种什么也没说的感觉。
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
艺术家是能够持有两种相反观点的人，但仍能完全发挥作用。
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
我确实想到，好的文学作品的效果可能和酒精一样令人头晕目眩。
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
阅读是走向未来，但没有人知道它会是什么。
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
容忍存在的一种方法是像在无休止的狂欢中一样，在文学中迷失自己。
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
书不能给人以前没有的智慧。但是有些地方，阅读使它变得更多。
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
当你为它做好准备时，在某个地方或其他地方，你会发现什么是你需要的书。
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored.
好书得到表扬，坏书得到表扬。好书被忽视，坏书被忽视。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
书籍真正的目的，是引导头脑开始独立思考。
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。
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。
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。
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯，把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。
We live and breathe words.
我们活着，呼吸着语言。