This will kind of bring some of these factors together, along with the idea of what people thought they were.

这样可以让这些因素结合起来,并沿着自我认知的思路讲下去

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Self knowledge is like lost innocence, however unsettling you find it; it can never be un-thought or un-known.

自我认知就像逝去的童真，不管你有多不安;,你已经无法不去想或是充耳不闻了。

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But it does mean that this decentralization is an essential part of who they thought they were.

但是这就意味着地方分权,是他们自我认知的基本组成部分

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This is a kind of literary self-consciousness that we're all familiar with.

这是一种文艺上的自我认知,我们对此都很熟悉。

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