What I Have Lived For
我為何而活
節選自《羅素自傳》序言
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 deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair.
對愛情的渴望，對知識的追求，對人類苦難不可遏制的同情心，這三種純潔而無比強烈的激情支配著我的一生。這三種激情，就像颶風一樣，在深深的苦海上，肆意地把我吹來吹去，吹到瀕臨絕望的邊緣。
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would 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 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.
我尋求愛情，首先因為愛情給我帶來狂喜，它如此強烈以致我經常愿意為了幾小時的歡愉而犧牲生命中的其他一切。我尋求愛情，其次是因為愛情可以解除孤寂一-那是一顆震顫的心，在世界的邊緣，俯瞰那冰冷死寂、深不可測的深淵。我尋求愛情，最后是因為在愛情的結合中，我看到圣徒和詩人們所想像的天堂景象的神秘縮影。這就是我所尋求的，雖然它對人生似乎過于美好，然而最終我還是得到了它。
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