抱着使我家族收藏的画作增值，并把它们从斧头之下拯救出来的希望，我必须强调一下积极的一面，那就是你从一些艺术品中获得的兴奋感。

The positive, which I should emphasise in hopes of inflating the value of my family's paintings and saving them from the chopper, is the thrill you get from some art.

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从大学到工作、再到婚姻、孩子以及死亡；我认为那就是生命。

From college to job to marriage to kids to death; I thought that's how life was.

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从生活中我领会到了一件事儿，那就是“平衡”被高估了。

If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that balance is overrated.

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I'm going to begin at the bottom of 73: If you have your book, go ahead and open it up.

我将从73页最下面开始读：,如果你带了书，那么就打开书翻到那页。

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I say, that's all rather interesting from a metaphysical point of view, but speaking personally, I don't really care.

我会说，那很有趣,从纯哲学的角度而言，但就个人来说，我不在乎。

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Later, as I grew worse, I could see the bags in the daytime with my eyes open and I was gripped by the fear that they were going to fall and drench me with some horrible liquid.

从那以后我的病情越来越糟，白天醒来就看到那些袋子,我担心它们坠下来,可怕的液体流到我头上。

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