Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.

有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说，在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。

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We feel as though whether somebody is me or not should depend upon internal facts about me in the earlier stages or this stage and that stage, not about what's happening elsewhere,outside,extrinsic to these things.

我们感觉定义某人是不是自己,应该取决于自身内在的各阶段的事实，而不是除此之外在外界发生的事情。

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I feel certain sensations in my body, but it doesn't seem as though I observe a soul.

我能感应到肉体里某些特定的感觉,但我并不认为那样我就能观察到灵魂

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It's as though we live life for a while, getting a feel for all the wonderful things life could offer us, and then a moment later, as it were, it's snatched away from us.

似乎我们活了一会，感受到了生命能提供给我们的所有美好的事物，然后片刻之后，又好像，被从我们身边夺走。

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