 What I Have Lived For
　　
Bertrand Russell
　　
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.
　　
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.
　　
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 Away Above The Flux. A Little Of This, but Not Much, I Have Achieved.
　　
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 To Alleviate The Evil, but I Cannot, and I Too Suffer.
　　
This Has Been My Life. I Have Found It Worth Living, and I Would Gladly Live It Again If The Chance Were Offered To Me.
　　
　　
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Bailante. Luo Su
　　
3 kinds simple however extremely emotion dictate wears my life: The longing to love, pursuit to knowledge, painful to the mankind hard the heart of susceptive pity. These 3 kinds of affection, resemble a hurricane is same, aleatoric ground waves what I blow to swing, cross painful ocean, reach acedia the other shore.
　　
I search love, above all, because it makes popular feeling drunk,the god is confused, it is so wonderful that this kind gets drunk, so that I am willing,exchange the pleasure of those a few hours with survive. I search love, because it can reduce loneliness,be next, place oneself in the loneliness at the sort of dreariness, the brim that asp soul is in the world, those who see iciness, of deathly stillness, abysmal abyss. I search love, because be when love is harmonious,return, in a mysterious epitome, I saw what wise man and poets imagine, imaginary heaven. What I go after this, although to laic for, this is like is a kind of extravagant hopes. But I find this finally.
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