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1. 

   Blaise Pascal

   20. Juli 2015

   Alle Schwierigkeiten des Menschen kommen daher, dass er nicht fähig ist, alleine still in einem Raum zu sitzen.

2. 

   Englische Originalübersetzung

   25. Dezember 2014

   Don’t read books!
   Don’t chant poems!
   When you read books your eyeballs wither away
   leaving the bare sockets.
   When you chant poems your heart leaks out slowly
   with each word.
   People say reading books is enjoyable.
   People say chanting poems is fun.
   But if your lips constantly make a sound
   like an insect chirping in autumn,
   you will only turn into a haggard old man.
   And even if you don’t turn into a haggard old man,
   it’s annoying for others to have to hear you.

   It’s so much better
   to close your eyes, sit in your study,
   lower the curtains, sweep the floor,
   burn incense.
   It’s beautiful to listen to the wind,
   listen to the rain,
   take a walk when you feel energetic,
   and when you’re tired go to sleep.

   (Jonathan Chaves)

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   Don’t read books,
   don’t chant poems:

   read books and your eyes wither until they see bones,
   chant poems and every word’s vomited from the heart.

   People say it’s delightful to read books,
   they say it’s wondrous to chant poems,

   but it means lips hissing on and on like autumn insects,
   and makes you thin and frail, ravages you with old-age.

   Thin and frail, ravaged with age—that may not be much,
   but it’s pretty annoying for anyone close enough to hear.

   It’s nothing like closing your eyes and sitting in a study:
   lower the blinds and sweep away the dust, light some incense,

   then listen to wind, listen to rain: they have such flavors.
   When you’re strong, walk. And when you’re tired, sleep.

   (David Hinton)

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