原本以为这12本英文书读得很快。翻看记录才发现，第一本《海底两万里》是在去年7月份开始读的。前后竟也跨度9个月。感觉中途因为忙碌几乎没有看新书，直到近段时间才重新找回了节奏。
每次整理“12锦集”，都像是在翻看旅行的日志或者照片。从某种意义上来说，阅读的确是一种旅行。这12本书陪我到了许多不同的城市，比如云南的大理和广东的潮汕。在那些熟悉或陌生的角落，都留下了字里行间的韵脚。下个12本或者100本，希望能够陪伴我在不同的国度。
12锦集 | He was in love with love.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
| Jules Verne
“That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?”
遥不可及，深不见底，谁能知晓？
——《海底两万里》
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The Decameron
| Giovanni Boccaccio
Who was that wicked man
who stole my herbs,
etc.
究竟是哪个邪恶的人，
偷走了我的罗勒
和爱人？
——《十日谈》
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Don Quixote
| Miguel de Cervantes
“Every man is the architect of his own destiny.”
每个人都是其命运的缔造者。
——《堂吉诃德》
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Option B
| Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
In the words of an old adage: “Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.”
正如一句古老的谚语所言：“如果我必须坠落，就让我坠落。我将变成的那个自己会托举住我。”
——《另一种选择》
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Letters to a Young Poet
| Rainer Maria Rilke
...to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they can not be given to you because you have not be able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.
对于内心未解决的问题要保持耐心，试着爱这些问题本身，就像爱锁着的房间和外文书一样。现在不要努力揭示答案：你不可能得到，因为你还未能够体验这些问题。当下重要的是尽可能地去生活。体验这些问题。或许逐渐地，你自己也没有意识到，在未来的某一天，你已经找到了答案。
——《给一个青年诗人的信》
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The Portrait of A Lady
| Henry James
“Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don’t wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.”
“除此之外，我试着为自己做出判断。我认为，即使判断错误也比完全不做判断要光彩得多。我不想成为羊群中的一只绵羊。我希望选择自己的命运，了解这人世间，而不是让别人觉得合不合适再来告诉我。”
——《一位女士的画像》
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
| James Joyce
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.
我会告诉你我将会做什么和不会做什么。我将不会臣服于那些我不再相信的事物，即便它被称作我的家，我的祖国，或者我的信仰：我将试着用某种生命或艺术的形式尽可能自由地，完全地表达自己，以此为自己辩护，并使用唯一我允许自己使用的武器——沉默，放逐，和狡黠。
——《一个青年艺术家的画像》
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The Outsider
| Albert Camus
He gave me a little smile; as he was leaving, he said: "I hope the dogs won't bark tonight. I always think that one of them is mine."
他对我浅浅一笑；在他要离开的时候，他说：“我希望今晚狗不会叫。不然我总觉得其中一只是我的狗。”
——《局外人》
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A Man Called Ove
| Fredrik Backman
But he never asked what she was doing. And he always waited for her.
但是他从来没有问过她在做什么，却总是为她而守候。
——《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》
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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
| Brianna Wiest
Everything is hard in some way. It’s hard to be in the wrong relationship. It’s hard to be in the right one. It’s hard to be broke and miserable, it’s hard to achieve your dreams. It’s hard to be stuck in the middle, not really feeling anything at all. Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You choose what’s worth it. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.
从某种程度上来说，任何事都很难。在一段错的关系里很难，在一段对的关系里也很难。支离破碎、痛苦不堪自然很难，但实现梦想也很难。寸步难行、无动于衷很难。任何事都很难，但是你选择你的难。你选择什么是值得难的。你无法选择你是否会受难，但你可以选择你想为了什么而受难。
——《改变你思考的101篇文章》
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Games People Play
| Eric Berne
Everyone carries a little boy or girl around inside of him.
每个人的内心都住着一个小男孩或者小女孩。
——《人间游戏》
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Out of Africa
| Karen Blixen
A white man who wanted to say a pretty thing to you would write: 'I can never forget you.' The African says: ' We do not think of you, that you can ever forget us.'
一个白人如果想对你说些漂亮话，他会写道：“我永远无法忘记你。”而非洲人会说：“我们并不会想起你，你可以忘了我们。”
——《走出非洲》
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