A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

一个垂死的民族容忍现在,拒绝未来,在过去的伟大和半记忆的荣耀中找到满足。

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

上帝并没有在我们不再相信个人神的那一天死去,而是在我们的生命不再受到每天不断更新的奇迹之光的照耀的那一天死去,而奇迹的源泉是没有任何理由的。

The goal of all life is death.

所有生命的目标都是死亡。