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生存还是毁灭原文高中英语美文阅读精选:生存还是毁灭

To be or not to be 生存还是毁灭

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.

They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous

words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every

thinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly

and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. A philosopher once wanted to know

whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself

occasionally. He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore am."

But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: "To be is

to be in relations." If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive.

To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations.

Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our

regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular

occupation, you are alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned--poetry

and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are

dead.

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a new

accomplishment--you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a large

variety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts,

new friends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also

alive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined only

to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which

you live, then you live in a narrow


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