The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions…

-- Louis de la Forge 路易·德·拉·福吉

大脑的精神直接与睾丸相连。这就是为什么那些厌倦了书本想象的人不太适合生育的原因。

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

书并不是绝对没有生命的东西，但书中确实包含着生命的力量，使之像它的后代那样活跃;不，它们确实像小瓶一样，保存着孕育它们的活生生的智慧的最纯粹的效力和精华。

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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

小说是艺术，艺术是对混乱的胜利……庆祝一个世界，它就像一个令人困惑和巨大的梦想，在我们周围展开。

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It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

当我们面对死亡的时候，我们才会变得书生气十足。

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A wicked book cannot repent.

一本坏书不会后悔。

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