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Reading
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
有时我想,天堂一定是一个不断的未枯竭的阅读。
You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.
你被赋予了使命!你已经拥有了完成它所需要的一切。
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
对我来说,百科全书的魅力在于它知道——而我不需要知道。
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
在书中,我不仅游历了其他的世界,而且进入了我自己的世界。
A good bookshop is just a genteel black hole that knows how to read.
一个好的书店就是一个懂读书的高雅黑洞。
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
没有比读书更便宜的娱乐,也没有比读书更持久的乐趣。
Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.
大多数档案保管员不喜欢惊喜。这就是我们过去工作的原因。
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
我通过阅读那些我希望自己曾经写过的书来学习写作。
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
你从文学作品中得到的答案取决于你提出的问题。
One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
一个人只有用金钱才能与金钱斗争!从我的岩石碎片的故事。
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
读译诗就像隔着面纱亲吻一个女人。
Reading the situation correctly is part of getting through it safely.
正确地了解情况是安全度过难关的一部分。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
喜欢读书的人通常是思想高尚、见解高尚的人。
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
不管你认为自己有多忙,你都必须找时间读书,否则你就会陷入自己选择的无知之中。
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下,它们会永远等你;关注他们,他们也会爱你。
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
当我们阅读一个故事时,我们会沉浸其中。这本书的封面像一个屋顶和四面墙。接下来要发生的事情将发生在故事的四面墙之内。这是可能的,因为故事的声音使一切成为自己的。
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
有权势的人没有时间读书;不读书的人,不配得权柄。