People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

  • -- E. O. Wilson 威尔森

人们需要一个神圣的故事。他们必须有一种更大的目标感,以某种形式存在,无论多么理智。他们将找到一种方法来保持祖先的灵魂活着。

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No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

不管你在生活的哪个阶段,不管你和什么样的人在一起,这一切都会像高中一样崩溃。你有自己的社交圈,有和你相处融洽的人,有和你格格不入的人,还有让你矛盾的人。所有的动力都在这里。

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer: Intercession is a way of loving others.

如果我们真的爱别人,我们对他们的渴望将远远超过我们所能给予他们的,这将引导我们祷告:代祷是爱别人的一种方式。

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

如果你真的要在一个故事中加入一句话,你也必须要有一个完整的故事,否则它就不能算作是叙述。

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilizers.

叙事是最好的麻醉剂或镇静剂之一。