自然只能让我们存在，而艺术创造人类。

Nature can only let us exist, while arts create mankind.

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因为如果我们不是（最具有创造力的生物），我们将无法在未来的生态系统中提供多少价值，这可能会使我们存在的基础受到质疑。

Because if we aren't, we won't be providing much value in future ecosystems, and that may put in question the foundation for our existence.

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尽管我们存在分歧，但仍能找到一些共同点。

Despite our disagreements, we have been able to find some common ground.

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In fact, it exists, amazingly, in order to hinder understanding in the kinds of texts that we're inclined to call "poetic."

事实上，它的存在，阻碍我们理解所有带有,诗性的文本“

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Well, up until probably ten years ago, this was the primary propellant in just about every kind of spray thing that we had, hairspray, everything.

好吧，直到大概十年前，作为主要推进剂,存在于我们的每一个喷射器里，发胶，以及一切。

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That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

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