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　　Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair. 　　有三种简单然却无比强烈的情感主宰着我的生活：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难以承受的怜悯之心。这些情感像一阵阵飓风，任意地将我吹的飘来荡去，越过痛苦的海洋，抵达绝望的彼岸。 　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness --- that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what --- at last --- I have found. 　　我寻找爱，首先是因为它使人心醉神迷——这种陶醉是如此的美妙，使我愿意牺牲所有的余生去换取几个小时这样的欣喜。我寻找爱，还因为它会减轻孤独——在可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘，看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊。最后，我寻找爱，还因为在爱的交融中，在一个神秘的缩影中，我看到了圣贤和诗人们想象出的天堂的前景。这就是我所追求的的，尽管对于凡人来说，这好像是一种奢望。但这也是我最终找到的。 　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. 我曾以同样的热情来探索知识。我希望能够理解人类的心灵。我希望能够知道群星为何闪烁。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯学派的理论，他们认为数字主宰着万物的此消彼涨。仅在不大的一定程度上，我达到了此目的。 　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long