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The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable.
你行為的惡果，到頭來使你絕對無法忍受。
You take measures to obtain relief, unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.
你采取措施以求獲得解脫，非正常的措施，但既不是非法，也并非有罪。
Still you are miserable, for hope has quitted you on the very confines of life.
而你仍然感到不幸，因為希望在生活的邊緣離你而去。
Your sun at noon darkens in an eclipse, which you feel will not leave it till the time of setting.
你的太陽遇上日蝕，在正午就開始暗淡，你覺得不到日落不會有所改變。Bitter and base associations have become the sole food of your memory.
痛苦和卑賤的聯想，成了你記憶的唯一食品。
You wander here and there, seeking rest in exile: happiness in pleasure.
你到處游蕩，在放逐中尋求安逸，在亨樂中尋覓幸福。
I mean in heartless, sensual pleasure — such as dulls intellect and blights feeling.
我的意思是沉緬于無情的肉欲—它消蝕才智，摧殘情感。
Heart-weary and soul-withered, you come home after years of voluntary banishment.
在幾年的自愿放逐以后，你心力交瘁地回到了家里。
You make a new acquaintance — how or where no matter.
結識了一位新知 — 何時結識，如何結識，都無關緊要。
You find in this stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years, and never before encountered.
在這位陌生人身上，你看到了很多出類拔率的品質，為它們你已經尋尋覓覓二十來年，卻終不可得。
And they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint.
這些品質新鮮健康，沒有污漬，沒有斑點。
Such society revives, regenerates.
這種交往使人復活，催人新生。
You feel better days come back — higher wishes, purer feelings.
你覺得好日子又回來了 — 志更高，情更真。
You desire to recommence your life, and to spend what remains to you of days in a way more worthy of an immortal being.
你渴望重新開始生活，以一種更配得上不朽的靈魂的方式度過余生。
