An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"

  • -- Annie Dillard 迪拉德

一个因纽特猎人问当地的传教士:“如果我不知道神和罪,我会下地狱吗?”“不,”牧师说,“如果你不知道,就不会。”“那么,”因纽特人恳切地问,“你为什么要告诉我?”

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

我的生命在结束之前已经关闭了两次; 这还有待观察 如果永生公布 第三件事, 如此巨大,如此难以想象, 就像这两次一样。 离别是我们对天堂的全部认知, 我们只需要地狱。

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

对不同的人来说,同一个世界是地狱,也是天堂。