Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

  • -- Thomas Browne 托马斯·布朗

生命本身不过是死亡的影子,灵魂的离去不过是活人的影子。

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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

直面死亡可以帮助你理清生活的轻重缓急。它帮助你过一种不那么琐碎的生活。

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

一个人的名誉就像一个影子,它在你之前是巨大的,在它之后是渺小的。

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.

如果我们都活在自己的世界里,并把它误认为是生活,那么我们就是在贬低和麻木生活。

From praise, as from a shadow, a man is neither bigger nor smaller.

从赞美中,如同从阴影中,一个人既不高大也不矮小。