To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

  • -- Julian Barnes 朱利安·巴恩斯

拥有一本书——并且在没有帮助的情况下选择它——就是定义你自己。

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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。

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

文学的一个便利之处是,尽管有版权,一本书既属于作者也属于读者。