I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.

-- Neil Strauss 尼尔·施特劳斯

我开始用天启的眼光看世界。我们的社会似乎是由混凝土和习俗建造而成的，它只是一个临时的休息场所，是我们的文明在几百年前入住的酒店，总有一天会退房。

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

不仅是习俗，而且是自然都肯定，做比遭受不公正更可耻，而正义就是平等。

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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

你童年早期的记忆似乎对你的情绪有很大的影响。它们是如此具体。

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Concrete breathes sun's heat.

混凝土吸收太阳的热量。

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Custom is second nature.

习惯成自然。

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