There's a kind of organic continuity that men partake of just as the natural world does.

如同自然世界的新陈代谢，人类也有一种,有机的代谢与持续。

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We can still say it's the same personality, the same evolving personality so longer as there is some kind of a pattern of overlapping continuity.

我们还是可以说是同样的人格，同样的不断进化完善的人格,拥有重叠性和,延展性。

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