No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

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The Elder Brother is issuing this theory without any consideration, - obviously, whatsoever of earthly reality and we're shocked by -- I don't know how else to put it.

大哥没有经过任何思考就提出了这个理论，显然，尘世间的任何事实都让我们震惊了-,我不知道怎么去说。

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So this idea that the human being is a mixture of clay, Captures that paradoxical mix of sort of earthly and divine elements, dependence and freedom that marks the human as unique.

这便是人类是黏土混合物，具有世俗和神圣因素的奇特混合，同时具有依赖性和独立性就是人类特别之外。

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