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生活的艺术 作者：林语堂 Chapter One THE AWAKENING 　　　　 Chapter Two VIEWS OF MANKIND 　　　　 Chapter Three OUR ANIMAL HERITAGE 　　　　 Chapter Four ON BEING HUMAN 　　　　 Chapter Five WHO CAN BEST ENJOY LIFE ? 　　　　 Chapter Six THE FEAST OF LIFE 　　　　 Chapter Seven THE IMPORTANCE OF LOAFING 　　　　 Chapter Eight THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HOME 　　　　 Chapter Nine THE ENJOYMENT OF LIVING 　　　　 Chapter Ten THE ENJOYMENT OF NATURE 　　　　 Chapter Eleven THE ENJOYMENT OF TRAVEL 　　　　 Chapter Twelve THE ENJOYMENT OF CULTURE 　　　　 Chapter Thirteen RELATIONSHIP TO GOD 　　　　 Chapter Fourteen THE ART OF THINKING Chapter One THE AWAKENING I APPROACH TO LIFE IN what follows I am presenting the Chinese point of view, because I cannot help myself. I am interested only in presenting a view of life and of things as the best and wisest Chinese minds have seen it and expressed it in their folk wisdom and their literature. It is an idle philosophy born of an idle life, evolved in a different age, I am quite aware. But I cannot help feeling that this view of life is essentially true, and since we are alike under the skin, what touches the human heart in one country touches all. I shall have to present a view of life as Chinese poets and scholars evaluated it with their common sense, their realism and their sense of poetry. I shall attempt to reveal some of the beauty of the pagan world, a sense of the pathos and beauty and terror and comedy of life, viewed by a people who have a strong feeling of the limitations of our existence, and yet somehow retain a sense of the dignity of human life. The Chinese philosopher is one who dreams with one eye open, who views life with love and sweet irony, who mixes his cynicism with a kindly tolerance, and who alternately wakes up from life s dream and then nods again, feeling more alive when he is dreaming than when he is awake, thereby investing his waking life with a dream-world quality. He sees with one eye