“除非人能不断地超越自我”，伊丽莎白女皇时代的诗人丹尼尔说：“否则，他是多么可怜的东西啊！”

himself above himself," said Daniel, a poet of the Elizabethan era, "how poor a thing is man!"

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很多聪明的人常用“我已经在最后关头竭尽全力了”这类可怜的谎话来自我安慰。

Many smart people tell themselves pathetic lies like, "I do my best work at the last minute."

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“你又在为自我苛责担心，”“我”抱怨着，“多么可怜的自我主义者！”

"You're worrying about your obsessive degree of self-criticism again," whines Me. "How pathetically solipsistic."

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