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Love your life
However mean your life is, meet it and live it, do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you’re richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts…
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
亨利 大卫 梭罗,美国散文家,诗人,超现实主义哲学家,最被人熟知的是他在瓦尔登湖隐居时的自传,使他成为新英格兰地区超现实主义的领军人物。梭罗的作品《不合作主义》影响了印度圣雄甘地的非暴力被动抵抗运动,还有美国黑人解放运动著名领袖马丁 路德 金以及同一时期英国工党的政治纲领。他的作品朴实无华,亲近自然,极大的感染了战后美国人的思想,从而也奠定了他在美国文学史上的崇高地位。 |  |  |  |  |
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