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编程与写作 写东西和编程序有些类似之处。当学习语言的时候，许多与之相关的知识也需要学。在没有自己的想法之前，写东西其实就是模仿他人的东西，练习再练习。 embrace despair the discrepancy between the world we live in and the world we might like to live in，the discrepancy between the world we live in and the world perceived in our mind 梦想与现实之间的差异（人类现状两个极端的差异） 感知与世界之间的差异（有限与无限之间） the most difficult thing is to love the world with all the evil and suffering in it 人生如深渊，唯一的路途就是不断地坠落。而如果世界不止是春暖花开，还有凛冽寒冬，你还会热爱这个世界？ 人哪有好坏，世界哪有黑白，而人生不过是自娱自乐，制造工具制造衣食，进而制造其他的一切，从随机和不确定中制造秩序、好坏、黑白、贫富和等级。 艺术 Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. – Picasso...

如果能记下过去，未来就能有个可靠的参考，因为人的记忆实在是靠不住的。一个人会忘记，一个人会修改记忆，一个人还会添加记忆。这和一个社会会不断地修改历史、不断地重新解释历史、不断地创造历史其实是一回事。无论如何，也要让自己现在过得舒服点容易点。 不过语言自身也是一个不断更新的媒体，新的字词和概念不断添加进来，旧的字词不断获得新的意思。能在语言的波涛中留下来的，一定是个独立的世界，自给自足，浑然一体。

人生苦短不在于时间，而是快乐总是短暂。从错误推演正确，从无知而得经历，从短暂而知无常，短是个问题而时间不是。

Life The most tragic form of loss isn’t the loss of security; it’s the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different. -~ Ernst Bloch Time Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us, a gloomy line of snuffed-out candles; the nearest are smoking still, cold, melted, and bent. – C....

Folly’s Antidote But all historians are prisoners of their own experience. We bring to history the preconceptions of our personalities and of our age. We cannot seize on ultimate and absolute truths. So the historian is committed to a doomed enterprise – the quest for an unattainable objectivity. Conceptions of the past are far from stable. They are perennially revised by the urgencies of the present. When new urgencies arise in our own times and lives, the historian’s soptlight shifts, probing at last into the darkness, throwing into sharp relief things that were always there but that earlier historians had carelessly excised from the collective memory....