Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

  • -- Alain de Botton 阿兰·德波顿

一本书之所以“好”,很大程度上是因为我们在正确的时间阅读了它。

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Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

事实上;和平文学几乎完全由和平主义者阅读,尽管效果很好,但需要的是对那些迄今尚未赢得和平事业的人进行游说。

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

就好书而言,重点不是看你能读多少本,而是看你能读多少本。

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

能像我爱书一样爱书,能与死人交谈,能生活在虚幻之中,这是多么幸福啊!

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

一个人在书中摆脱疾病——重复并再次呈现自己的情感,以便控制它们。

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

我真的不喜欢坐在家里听我自己的唱片。它们没有那么好。

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

总有一天你会长大到可以重新开始读童话了。