Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself. If all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

  • -- Simone de Beauvoir 西蒙·德波伏瓦

生命既要使自己永存,又要超越自己。如果它所做的一切只是维持自己,那么活着只是没有死亡。

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

生活是一个不断变化的过程,是我们必须经历的各种状态的组合。人们失败的地方在于,他们希望选举一个国家并继续留在这个国家。这是一种死亡。

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

有一件事永远不会停止让我惊讶,伴随着地球上植物的生长和头上毛发的生长,那就是理解的增长。