So your goal, Plato says, your goal should be, in life, to practice death-- to separate yourself from your body.

所以你的目标,柏拉图说,你的目标应该是,活着时,练习,把心灵从身体分离出来

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To go philosophically from life's so bad given the nature of the human condition, life followed by death, that better to never have had any of it than to have just had a taste and a tease and so forth.

在哲学上从生命是如此不好出发,给定人类处境的本质，生后即是死，什么都不要有,比只尝一口然后被戏弄等等要好。

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