They believed the world was made up of a struggle between human autonomy, on the one hand, and human dependency on the other, and you should never give up on that dependency.

他们相信这个世界是由两部分组成,一部分是人自身的自律,而另一部分则是人类与人之间的相互依赖,你永远不应该放弃那种依赖

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And it's of course possible to say, well, just imagine a friend that you would want to talk through all eternity to. But the whole point is, I can't imagine what that would be like.

当然可以说，想象一个你想与之,永远长谈的朋友，但问题是，我无法想象那种情景。

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