In spite of what happened, he never lost the will to live.

尽管如此遭遇，他从未丧失活下去的意志。

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“Sorrow all but overwhelmed me,” he later wrote. “Then I turned to my love of painting for the will to live.”

“那是彻骨的悲伤，但并未将我击倒，”他后来写道，“那时，我从对绘画的热爱中寻求生活的意志。”

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But dying of old age isn't just a case of peacefully losing the will to live - it is an accumulation of diseases and injuries different to those that tend to kill people at younger ages.

但是，老年人过世不只是安详地放弃生活意愿那么简单——它是那种有别于会夺走年纪较青的人生命的疾病和伤痛的累积结果。

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And then some of them will try to soften and try to say, "Come on, we wanna live our own lives.

然后一些人会试图缓和态度,试着说，“我们的生活要继续。

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Such individuals will subordinate their own desires and pleasures to the group, and live a life by a strict code of honor.

这种个体,会将自己的欲望与愉悦,放到团体之后，过着一种严格遵守荣誉规范的生活。

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And if I can just say that breast cancer diagnosis only fueled my will to live.

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Instead, the danger is that it will lose its talent and its will to live.

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These people are not without reason, and sometimes the will to live does prevail.

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