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t we put our hand upon it; it melts away like smoke; is gone forever; and the snake is eating at our heart again; we see then what we are and what our lives must e to。

A young man is so strong; so mad; so certain; and so lost。 He has everything and he is able to use nothing。 He hurls the great shoulder of his strength forever against phantasmal4 barriers; he is a wave whose power explodes in lost mid…oceans under timeless skies; he reaches out to grip a fume of painted smoke; he wants all; feels the thirst and power for everything; and finally gets nothing。 In the end; he is destroyed by his own strength; devoured by his own hunger; improvised by his own wealth。 Thoughtless of money or the accumulation of material possessions; he is none the less defeated in the end by his own greed—a greed that makes the avarice5 of King Midas seem paltry by parison。

And that is the reason why; when youth is gone; every man will look back upon that period of his life with infinite sorrow and regret6。 It is the bitter sorrow and regret of a man who knows that once he had a great talent and wasted it; of a man who knows that once he had a great treasure and got nothing from it; of a man who knows that he had strength enough for everything and never used it。

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艱辛的人生

'美國'西奧多·羅斯福

西奧多·羅斯福(1858—1919),美國第26任總統、作家、探險家和軍事家,畢業於哈佛大學,曾發表《勤奮地生活》演說,旨在針對19世紀末美國驕奢淫逸、貪圖享樂之風盛行,憑藉此文遏制當時的腐敗現象。本文《艱辛的人生》也反映了他這種反對怠惰安逸、崇尚奮鬥人生的思想。

一種怠惰安逸的生活,一種僅僅是由於缺少追尋