Three paion， imple but overwhelmingly h2， have governed my life： the longing for love， the earch for knowledge， and unbearable pity for the uffering of mankind. Thee paion， like great wind， have blown me hither and thither， in a wayward coure， over a great ocean of anguih， reaching to the very verge of depair.
I have ought love， firt， becaue it bring ectay - ectay o great that I would often have acrificed all the ret of life for a few hour of thi joy. I have ought it， next， becaue it relieve loneline——that terrible loneline in which one hivering concioune look over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifele aby. I have ought it finally， becaue in the union of love I have een， in a mytic miniature， the prefiguring viion of the heaven that aint and poet have imagined. Thi i what I ought， and though it might eem too good for human life， thi i what——at lat——I have found.
With equal paion I have ought knowledge. I have wihed to undertand the heart of men. I have wihed to know why the tar hine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number hold way above the flux. A little of thi， but not much， I have achieved.
Love and knowledge， o far a they were poible， led upward toward the heaven. But alway pity brought me back to earth. Echoe of crie of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine， victim tortured by oppreor， helple old people a burden to their on， and the whole world of loneline， poverty， and pain make a mockery of what human life hould be. I long to alleviate thi evil， but I cannot， and I too uffer.[由www.haoZuowen.Com整理]
Thi ha been my life. I have found it worth living， and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.