When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

当我尽力想象一种,令人永远期望迷恋的存在时，根本想象不出，总是变成恶梦。

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It would actually be a nightmare, something you would long to free yourself from.

其实它将是场恶梦，那将是你渴望摆脱的东西。

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When I read the papers in the morning m in a bad dream.

早晨看报纸的时候,我总觉得在做恶梦，I，often，feel，that，I’

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It seems like it becomes some kind of a nightmare.

而是变成一个恶梦。

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If I'm right in thinking immortality would be undesirable, then the fact that we're going to die is good, because it guarantees that we won't be immortal, which would be a nightmare, an unending nightmare.

如果永生不值得期许的观点是对的，那么我们终将一死的事实是好的，因为它保证我们不得永生，那是恶梦，一场永无止尽的恶梦。

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But again, if you think of the possibility of doing that for all eternity and never getting away from it, never being free from it, the positive dream of immortality, I think, becomes a nightmare.

但是想想如果永远,那样下去，永远不法逃离，永远无法解脱，永生的美妙梦想，就会变成恶梦。

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