And better in the general sense: become better in schoolwork, become a better person, become a better writer become as best as I can be in all aspects of my life."

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Because according to the soul theory of personal identity to be me that person's got to have my soul.

以为根据灵魂论,对于个人同一性来说,要成为我,那个人要有我的灵魂。

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And I can be that standing in my own faith because really what you become is an example, a model of an engaged faithful person who is now working so hard to bring people different religion traditions together."

我能坚持自己的信仰,因为你成为的那个人是,一个有信仰的人，他正在致力于,使不同的宗教传统融合“

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And the person's just going to say, "My god! That wouldn't be alive!"

于是就有人说,上帝,那不可能是个活物

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The question of the relationship between the person and the aesthetic in Lolita is going to be at the heart of my overarching argument about the novel.

而这个男人和《Lolita》的美二者关系,将成为我们探讨这部小说的,主要核心。

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