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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

  • -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 圣埃斯库里

文明是建立在人们所需要的东西之上的，而不是建立在为他们提供的东西之上。

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

但是，只有通过细胞分裂的过程，才能使个体得到区别，使个体区别于母体，并独立于母体，从而获得文明的品质或文化。

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

我们就像无知的牧羊人，生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片，对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

人怕死，正如孩子怕黑;当孩子们天生的恐惧因故事而增加时，另一种恐惧也随之增加。

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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

爱情是女人生命的全部历史，但它只是男人生命中的一段插曲。

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