Instead of feeling happiness and awe from staring at an anthill and watching the mysteries of life unfold, you decided to forget those small pleasures.

当你凝视着一座蚁丘，看着生命的奥秘展现时，你并没有感到快乐和敬畏，而是决定忘记那些小小的快乐。

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And if we have the strength to be honest, then what we find there staring back at us is our own reflection, bearing witness to the duality of life.

如果我们强大到可以诚实以对，我们就会发现，我们如芒在背的正是我们自己那不得不见证人生两重性的倒影。

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He has a broad forehead, with large and goggling, backward staring glassy eyes that are golden at the pupil and still have all their luster-still the same aimless gleam they had in life.

兔子脑门宽阔，又大又突的玻璃般的眼睛往后瞪着，瞳孔金黄，仍然炯炯有神——仍然有生前顾盼生辉的神采。

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Julia gave up her dream of working outdoors, and spent the rest of her life closeted in a room staring at a computer screen.

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Folks were chatting with friends, passed out, or staring into space contemplating the meaning of life, I imagined, or a second platter of veal dumplings.

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So many characters running, weeping, staring, talking, all the years of his writing life.

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