No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us.

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He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

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What do you think is the significance of being social and having personal connections?

你觉得善于社交、有人际关系有什么重要意义？

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