We are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear, to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity, that we forget that one thing, of which these are but the parts—namely, to live.

我们急着做事、写作、积攒财物，急着让自己的声音在永恒那嘲弄般的寂静中响上一刻，以至忘了最根本的一件事——生活；而这些不过是生活的片段。