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?

-- Edgar Rice Burroughs 埃德加糙米

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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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

现代性的存在是以一种欲望的形式存在的，这种欲望就是要消灭之前的一切，希望至少达到一个可以被称为真正的现在的点，一个标志着新起点的起点。

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Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

没有了欲望，你就会明白其中的奥秘。在欲望中，你只能看到表象。

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All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

我们都是远距离修行的专家。

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Blushing is the color of virtue.

脸红是美德的颜色。

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