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 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 away 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 hated 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 the 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.
———p.1 Russell
序:我为何而生——追求和悲悯
和≠paleink的饶舌
这三年以来, 除了专业科,罗素先生的著作应是我的第二嗜好,3年前,我有幸得读The Conquest of Happiness,酷爱其文字之粹美, 思想之深广,很少有日子我不读它,想到它。是它,把我带进一个前所未见的奇境去探索。读他的书是思想做Roller Coaster的时侯,愉悦地滑行着,跳跃着。
the second song of my blog background music is lullaby, good for u?
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The show must go on ...
Empty spaces - what are we living for?
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score..
On and on!
Does anybody know what we are looking for?
Another hero - another mindless crime.
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime.
Hold the line!
Does anybody want to take it anymore?
The show must go on!
The show must go on!
Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on!
Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance.
Another heartache - another failed romance.
On and on!
Does anybody know what we are living for?
I guess I'm learning.
I must be warmer now..
I'll soon be turning round the corner now.
Outside the dawn is breaking,
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free!
The show must go on!
The show must go on! Yeah!
Ooh! Inside my heart is breaking!
My make-up may be flaking!
But my smile, still, stays on!
Yeah! oh oh oh
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies,
Fairy tales of yesterday, will grow but never die,
I can fly, my friends!
The show must go on! Yeah!
The show must go on!
I'll face it with a grin!
I'm never giving in!
On with the show!
I'll top the bill!
This is my favourite song
I'll overkill!
I have to find the will to carry on!
On with the,
On with the show!
“止痛片”或“牛黄解毒丸”到是可以免了,但如果有一曲“清心普善奏”到是很好的,朦朦之中倒在时光飞逝的音乐里,让思绪飞过平湖春月,华明萧雾之间,那是很好的。至于用了Q的名号,我是要感激的,这样的FREE COMMERCIAL很好的,哪里真的有半分不快。:)),所以,如果可以把玩笑开得大一点,就好像说,“被你痛扁一顿都是Q的荣幸”,或因此成就了你的千古英明,Q也是居功至伟的,何况,你只是摸着Q的头说:乖,阿姨给你卖糖吃,MADE BY RESSULL 噢。”(哈哈哈,考验一下你的幽默程度和心里承受能力以及豁达程度,哈哈哈,千万别真生气的)。