那么你就该清心寡欲，这就就能免去一切痛苦，忧愁，避开一切呕心沥血的搏斗和失败的苦恼，然而你的生活也就无所谓欢乐，无所谓幸福，你想快乐吗？

You should desire, this can save all the pain, sorrow, struggle and make painstaking efforts to avoid all misery of failure, but your life there is no joy, no happiness, you want to be happy?

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像伦敦的布莱克一样聪明地选择衣物。在他开口前，他的套装就表明了一切。而你之前认为他很可爱。看看这件海军大衣，告诉我他已经破产。

Dressed smart like a London Bloke. Before he speak, his suit bespoke. And you thought he was cute before. Look at this P-Coat, Tell me he's broke.

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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