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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

  • -- Vincent van Gogh 文森特·梵高

无论在我的生活中还是在我的绘画中，我都可以很好地没有上帝，但我不能，尽管我很痛苦，没有比我更伟大的东西，那就是我的生命，创造的力量。

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In seeking to avoid evil, [humanity] is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is [our] ingenuity, rather than [our] animal nature, that has given [our] fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

在寻求避免邪恶的过程中，(人类)有责任把更多的邪恶带到这个世界上，这比生物体仅仅通过锻炼消化道所能做的还要多。是(我们的)独创性，而不是(我们的)动物性，给了(我们的)同伴如此痛苦的尘世命运。

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

很少有国家穷到只有一个上帝。神是如此容易造出来的，原料成本又如此之低，以致神的市场一般都相当饱和，天堂里挤满了这些幽灵。

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

人们在试图设计完全傻瓜的东西时常犯的一个错误是低估了完全傻瓜的独创性。

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