It meant an annihilation of the Will, a release from individuated existence from the prison of being oneself and dissolution into the all-embracing bliss of nothingness.

这就意味着意志的湮灭，从个体存在的监狱中释放，并溶解在包容一切的虚无之风中。

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The first might be simultaneously instant-messaging, listening to music and e-mailing, the other puffing a Gitane and jotting down notes about being and nothingness.

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