I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now.

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Should I live or should I shoot myself?"--properly speaking, "To be or not to be?"

我是该活着还是该打死自己？“的时候，会想到用得体的话说应该是“生存还是毁灭？“

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And,certainly,the way that provincial people--including myself, and we're legally residents of France, and we live in Ardeche and I'm proud of it-- view Parisians is often with that same kind of contempt that the Parisians look at us.

当然,乡下人包括我自己的生活方式,我们是法国的合法居民,我们住在阿尔代什并以此为傲,在看待巴黎人时也会带有某种轻蔑,就好像巴黎人看我们那样

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