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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That's a stronger claim, though I think it's not the sort of claim that's unique to Tolstoy, that all of us or most of us or many of us at the fundamental level don't really believe that we're going to die.

这个说法就比较有力了，虽然我觉得这不是托尔斯泰独有的看法，声称我们当中全部或大部分,从某种根本程度上不相信自己会死。

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