罗素自传导言： What I have lived for 多种译文比读

罗素自传导言： What I have lived for 多种译文比读

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“What I Have Lived For” by Bertrand

Russell

Three passions, simple but

overwhelmingly 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 wha