A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Reading
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
许多人，包括我自己在内，一看到一本书就感觉好多了。
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
我只是在公司里不怎么出彩。大多数时候，我更喜欢带着一本书静修。
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
我有所有我需要的书，还有什么比书更需要的呢?
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
书籍似乎是投机取乐最直接的工具。
Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.
书是一面镜子:你只能从里面看到你内心已经有的东西。
You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.
你可以环游世界，读书时不离开椅子。
I spent most of my free time reading. It was a great escape from reality.
我把大部分空闲时间都花在阅读上。这是对现实的极大逃避。
I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I'd be a drunk too.
我读了很多书。我喜欢书。如果它们装在瓶子里，我也会醉的。
A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
小说是一种转换体验。我们从改变中走出来。
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
我读书是因为我爱它们，而不是因为我认为我应该读它们。
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
你读完的一本书和你读之前的那本书不一样。
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
最古老的书仍然只对那些没有读过的人开放。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
我从来不想和一个写得比读得多的人交谈。
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
如果一个人不能一次又一次地享受读书的乐趣，那么读书就毫无用处。
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
通过阅读圣经，我是如此的新生，所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净，一片湛蓝，树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀，我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
头脑需要书籍，就像剑需要磨石一样，如果它想保持锋利的话。
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
当读者进入一本诗集，他或她进入一个世界，在那里梦想把过去变成适用于现在的知识，在那里幻想把现在塑造成未来的非凡可能性。