At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

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I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

我并没有想太多我写这些书的目的,除了我知道我想要我的下一部小说是一种不那么传统的形式,而不是直接的叙述。

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

在宇宙的尺度上,我们的生命是微不足道的,然而当我们出现在这个世界上的短暂时期,所有有意义的问题都产生了。

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

我运用了我的直觉。其实很容易想象你的感受。我只需要讲述故事。

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

愤怒和痛苦并不能培养女性气质。它们使心脏变硬,使身体生病。

If home is where the heart is, then why am i so heartless.

如果家是心的所在,那我为何如此无情。