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确定
Certainty
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问，如果我们不能相信圣经，我们能相信什么?
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..
难道这不是产生新确定性的最深刻怀疑的时刻吗?也许绝望正是滋养人类希望的土壤;也许一个人如果不首先体验生活的荒谬性，就永远找不到生活的意义。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
反抗是一种道德上的必然，而不是诗意的。真正的诗人从不为了惩罚别人而使用词语。他的判断属于创造秩序;它不是作为一个预言性的经文。
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
嫉妒源于怀疑。一旦我们从怀疑过渡到确定，它就会变成疯狂或完全停止。
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探索。不确定性正是促使人展现其力量的条件。
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
人们追求美，是为了使它受到玷污;不是为了它自己，而是为了肯定要亵渎它而带来的快乐。
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
有那么一瞬间，她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定，她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.
不确定性是一种不舒服的状态，但确定性是一种荒谬的状态。