我的人生追求What I have lived for

人活着是为了什么？你的人生有什么追求呢？人生的意义是什么呢?我们很多时候都不自觉地这样拷问自己，就像在《钢铁是怎样炼成的》里面保罗所想的一样，究竟活着有什么意义呢，希望下面这篇英语散文能够带给你更多的思考或共鸣：

Three passions, simple but overwhelming 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 my life for a few hours for 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 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 can’t, 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.

这是罗素的名作：人生的三种激情，对爱情的渴望，对知识的追求，对受苦人民的关心，贯穿着罗素的一生。

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Unbearable无法忍受的；hither and thither到处；wayward人性的；anguish痛苦，苦恼；verge边缘；ecstasy入迷；unfathomable莫测高深的；abyss深渊；miniature缩影，缩图；prefigure预示，设想；reverberate反响；oppressor压迫者；mockery嘲笑；alleviate减轻；
 

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