But humans continue their violent and evil ways, And in desperation, God wipes them out, and starts again.

但人类继续他们暴力邪恶的行径，绝望时，上帝将他们消灭，重新开始。

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My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

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