Because I think that's actually the most satisfying life for us to live, personally, to feel that we are really making a difference somehow and we are not living just for ourselves.

我个人认为,最完满的生活，是那种，你能够感受到真正发挥了作用的生活,而不是完全地为自己而活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Perhaps I live my life in the footnotes of other people.

或许我的一生都花在别人的脚注上。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And so I can--a great deal after all, 20 years-- I can give you a pretty good idea of what it's like to live in France, even if I didn't move there for the rest of my life without ever coming back."

所以我可以,毕竟二十年还是有很多,关于住在法国是什么样的感觉,我可以给你很好的描述,就算在我的有生之年我再也不会,搬回法国

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