.. And so it's a kind of--; So, it is indeed a fact of our powerlessness that we're stuck with the necessities.

所以这有点;,所以这确实是我们没有能力,我们才会为必然的事情而苦恼。

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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