Three passions， simple but overwhelmingly strong， have governed my life： the longing for love， the search for knowledge， and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions， like great winds， have blown me hither and thither， in a wayward course， over a great ocean of anguish， reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love， first， because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it， next， because it relieves loneliness——that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally， because in the union of love I have seen， in a mystic miniature， the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought， and though it might seem too good for human life， this is what——at last——I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this， but not much， I have achieved.
Love and knowledge， so far as they were possible， led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine， victims tortured by oppressors， helpless old people a burden to their sons， and the whole world of loneliness， poverty， and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil， but I cannot， and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living， and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
三種簡單卻又無比強烈的激情左右了我的一生:對愛的渴望,對知識的探索和對人類苦難的難以忍受的憐憫。這些激情像狂風,吹來吹去,方向不定,在痛苦的海洋,到達絕望的邊緣。
我追求愛情,首先是因為它帶來狂喜——我常常為之心醉神迷,犧牲所有的余生來換取幾個小時這樣的欣喜。下,我尋找愛,還因為它解除孤獨,在可怕的孤獨中,一顆顫抖的意識世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷死寂的無底深淵。我尋求最后,是因為在愛的結(jié)
I have sought love， first， because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it， next， because it relieves loneliness——that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally， because in the union of love I have seen， in a mystic miniature， the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought， and though it might seem too good for human life， this is what——at last——I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this， but not much， I have achieved.
Love and knowledge， so far as they were possible， led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine， victims tortured by oppressors， helpless old people a burden to their sons， and the whole world of loneliness， poverty， and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil， but I cannot， and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living， and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
三種簡單卻又無比強烈的激情左右了我的一生:對愛的渴望,對知識的探索和對人類苦難的難以忍受的憐憫。這些激情像狂風,吹來吹去,方向不定,在痛苦的海洋,到達絕望的邊緣。
我追求愛情,首先是因為它帶來狂喜——我常常為之心醉神迷,犧牲所有的余生來換取幾個小時這樣的欣喜。下,我尋找愛,還因為它解除孤獨,在可怕的孤獨中,一顆顫抖的意識世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷死寂的無底深淵。我尋求最后,是因為在愛的結(jié)