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The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
无论你多么努力地让自己相信他不是真实的，你都能感觉到自己爱上了这样的英雄
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
当我成为国王时，他们不仅有面包和住所，而且还有书本上的教导，因为在思想饥饿的地方，饱腹是没有什么价值的。
Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
读书对我来说是件很私人的事。我更愿意给某人一张书店的礼券，让他/她自己选书。
It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.
受到一些不好的批评是件好事。我还在这里，我很好，但如果我说你没有读到负面的东西，那我就是在说谎。
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
在最高的文明中，书仍然是最高的乐趣。谁曾知道它的满足，谁就有了对付灾难的资源。
A responsible woman is one who sees opportunities of service and responds to them quickly. In her dwells the ability to see and respond to opportunities.
一个负责任的女人是一个能看到服务机会并迅速做出反应的人。她有能力看到机会并做出反应。
This ‘sense’ is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces), but by reading the lines themselves.
这种“感觉”不是通过阅读字里行间的文字来获得的(因为在那些空白的地方什么也没有)，而是通过阅读字里行间的文字来获得的。
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
一个好的图书馆永远不会太整洁，也不会太脏，因为总会有人在里面，把书从书架上拿下来，读到很晚。
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
文学是我们了解世界，并将价值观代代相传的安全而传统的载体。书拯救生命。
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
严肃作家的现实是许多声音的现实，有些属于作家，有些属于广大读者的世界。
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
当你掌握了数字，你就不会再读数字了，就像你读书时读单词一样，你也不会再读意义了。
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads favorite authors, particular themes as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
我告诉自己，一个人读什么并不重要，重要的是我们读了什么。拥有这些书并不重要。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
每一个懂得读书的人都有能力使自己变得伟大，使自己的生活方式多样化，使自己的生活充实、有意义、有趣。
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。