The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

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First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.

首先你想知道它们是不是独立的故事,但是不,它们不是,它们是偶然的故事,它们形成了一种模式。你从岛上的一些地方开始书中的女主人公回到了那里。

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

运气好的人和运气不好的人,运气都好,运气都不好;将来必死的人没有先知。

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

在我的一生中,我将继续执著地在我所认识的人当中写下爱、孤独和激情。其余的我不感兴趣。

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.

我对天文学的业余兴趣引出了“星等”一词,用来表示恒星的亮度。

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

任何人都不应该认为自己一无是处,认为自己对世界的现状无能为力。

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.

如果你想成为普通人,你就不会读这本书。