Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

  • -- Alberto Manguel 阿尔维托·曼古埃尔

每一位读者的存在都是为了确保某本书适度地不朽。从这个意义上说,阅读是一种重生的仪式。

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Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.

先写结尾,然后在开头的句子之前你就知道这将是一本好书。

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

她想,对于一个讨厌读书的男孩来说,这一定是一种孤独的生活。

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

读书就是遮住脸。而写作就是展示它。

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?