Because we had this kind of antiseptic separation between suffering and non-suffering until we are the one suffering.

而我们一无所知，这是因为一道坚固的高墙隔开,我们和身处苦难的人们,直到我们亲自尝到苦难，这种隔离才会消失。

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It refers instead, to the concrete, collective, communal salvation from national suffering and oppression, particularly in the form of foreign rule or enslavement.

相反，它指的是很具体的，集体的，社会的拯救,把一个国家从苦难和压迫中解救出来，尤其是那些在外族统治者奴役下的。

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and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

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