Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

  • -- Gustave Flaubert 福楼拜

不要像孩子那样,为了自娱自乐而读书,也不要像有抱负的人那样,为了受教育而读书。不,为了生活而读书。

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Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

学习阅读可能是人类大脑中发生的最困难、最具革命性的事情,如果你不相信这一点,看看一个不识字的成年人是怎么做的吧。

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

一本文笔优美的书就像一张魔毯,把我们带到一个我们无法以任何其他方式进入的世界。

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

没有人能读懂一本深奥的书,除非他至少读过其中的一部分内容,并亲身经历过。

Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.

书籍传递信息,让体验有机会发挥创造力。