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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

绝大多数的传记都是在家庭痉挛和遗忘之间的灰色过渡。

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Because she looks so real and natural, there is something unsettling about her. She's our direct ancestor, so you expect to see something human, but she is not a human and not an ape, but something in between.

因为她看起来那么真实和自然，所以她有些不安。她是我们的直系祖先，所以你希望看到一些人类的东西，但她不是人类也不是猿，而是介于两者之间。

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

人类的非理性具有某种令人厌恶和可怕的东西，正如我们在疯子、吝啬鬼、醉汉或无尾猿身上所看到的那样。

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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

一旦你接触到人类的传记，政治信仰是由逻辑决定的观念就会像被扎破的气球一样崩溃。

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The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

最好的采访就像最好的传记一样，应该歌颂人类的奇特和多样性。

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