Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

  • -- Epicurus 伊壁鸠鲁

死亡与我们无关,因为只要我们存在,死亡就不在这里。当它来的时候,我们已经不存在了。

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When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

当你从一个房间转到另一个房间时,当你的动物感觉不到洗碗机的声音、滴答作响的时钟、烤鸡的味道——厨房和它所有看似分散的部分都消失在虚无之中——或者变成一波又一波的可能性。

For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.

对你们来说,国家是一个有自己目的的实体,人民可以被要求为之服务。对我们来说,这个词只是一个标签,用来表示我们人民把共同关心的事情的责任委托给我们中间的一些人所作的安排。

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的,因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的,在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

今天,自我意识已不再意味着任何东西,而只是作为一种尴尬的自我反省,作为无能为力的实现:知道自己什么都不是。