Hawthorne wrote a short story you should read sometime, as a balance to all of this optimism of this period, irresistible as that optimism was.

霍桑写了篇短文,有机会你应当读读看,他给那个狂热乐观主义时代打了一针清醒剂,因为那是种不容抗拒的乐观

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Well,you might say,Okay,what we meant was anybody who's awake while they're dying,dies alone.

你也许会说，人在清醒时候死去是孤独的。

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Quite to the contrary, it's about being fully present, fully conscious to our life and to all that's around us, realizing that we can be this calm in the center of the storm with our breath.

恰恰相反，这是要完全活在当下，完全清醒,感受我们的生活以及周围的事物，意识到我们可以如此平静,在暴风中心保持呼吸。

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Everybody who dies awake,realizing that they're dying, facing the fact that they're dying, they all,we all of whom that's true, we all die alone,as long as we realize we're dying.

每个人在清醒着，意识到自己死亡的情况下，面对自己死亡这个事实，我们所有人，在意识到自己死亡的条件下，都是孤独的死去。

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