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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我所认识的被贪恋妻儿、贪图安逸所毁灭的人，比我所见过的被酗酒和娼妓所毁灭的人还要多。

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Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

文明已经被摧毁了很多次，这个文明也不例外。它可以被摧毁。我们可以把时间想象成几百万年，生活就会一点一点地恢复。宇宙对我们的作用非常迫切，但地质时间是不同的。

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

没有欲望就没有美德，因为一个人想要别人不想要的东西，谁能说他想要的孩子是罪恶还是美德呢?

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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

我想指出的是，生活模仿艺术远远超过艺术模仿生活的一般原则。

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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

你不希望世界被毁灭，因为，你知道，你的鞋子就在那里。

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