I believe that is true. If you make the effort to do the best of what you are capable, trying to improve the situation that exists for you, I think that is success and I do not think others can judge that."

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Second question, though, is: Does the soul, even if it exists, survive the destruction of the body?

第二个问题,即使灵魂存在,在肉体被摧毁后,灵魂是否能存活

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Use the "Is there" whenever you want to ask if something exists.

当你想知道某事或某物是否存在时，就可以使用“Is there”句型。

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If the person is the pair and the pair no longer exists, the person no longer exists.

如果人是这一对儿,而这对儿已经不复存在,那这人也就不存在了

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I don't know if it exists yet or not.

我不知道是否存在。

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And if it is just one thing, you could tell a story in which it exists; you could tell a story in which it doesn't exist.

所以,如果它只是一个物体,你只能说它存在,或是不存在

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If I can tell a story in which A exists and B doesn't exist, it's got to follow that A and B are not the same thing.

如果我跟你说A存在但B不存在,就可以得出结论A和B不是一个东西

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And then perhaps the right thing to say is the person no longer exists, so they no longer exist as a person, even if the body is still alive.

也许正确的说法应该是,这个人已经不存在了，他们作为人的身份已经消失，即便肉体还是活着的。

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