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。
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不思考，犹如吃饭不消化。
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书证明了人类有能力使用魔法。
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。
Love doesn't sit there like a stone. It has to made like bread; remade all the time, made new.
爱不是一块木头，一动不动的坐在那里。它必须像面包一样;不断改造，不断创新。
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
读一千本书，你的话就会像河流一样流淌。
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。