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Reading
Writing is defined as a conversation with no one and yet with everyone.
写作被定义为没有人和所有人的对话。
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
找些书，随便找个地方坐下，自己去读。
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
不要吹灭别人的蜡烛，因为它不会使你的蜡烛更亮。
Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.
不要在意字里行间的意思，先看看字里行间的意思。
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
我在看书……“胶水的历史”——我无法把它放下。
The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
现实世界是一本杂乱无章的书，需要一位优秀的编辑。
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
阅读是个人的追求;一个发生在紧闭的门后的故事。
In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.
在书中，我发现生活中的一切都被明目张胆地审查过。
We have won battles that are strange and strong for a carnal man to win.
我们赢得了奇怪而又强大的战斗，一个肉欲的人能赢。
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
读书对她来说不是一种退路，而是一种理想的生存状态。
A responsible woman sees and accepts only the best in a given situation.
一个负责任的女人在特定的情况下只看到和接受最好的东西。
Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.
她不是那种会扔书的人，她用拳头捶着垫子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读，在成熟时读，在老年时读，就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
我发现电视很有教育意义。每次有人打开电视，我就去另一个房间看书。
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
阅读所有的好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
我们成为什么样的人，取决于我们在所有教授教完我们之后读了什么书。最伟大的大学是一所藏书的大学。
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
一个读者在他死之前经历了一千次生命。从不读书的人只活一次。