97. 罗素: 人生的旅程像从小溪到河流到大海

An individual human existence should be like a river – small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. 人的一生应该是一条河，起初是涓涓细流，紧紧的夹在河岸之中，然后激烈的冲过岩石，飞下瀑布。渐渐的，河面宽阔起来，河岸向后退去，水流也平缓了。最后连绵不断的汇入海洋，毫无痛苦的失去自我的存在。——罗素《如何变老How to Grow Old》