《海狼》第六章末尾

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“昨天我们就在谈这个问题。”他说，“我认为生命是一种酵母。一种发酵的东西。他为了生活就吞噬生命，而生活只是猪一样的贪婪所取得的成功。为什么？如果说供求之间应该有关系的话，那么生命就是世界上最廉价的东西了。世界上只有那么多的水，那么多的土壤，那么多的空气，而要求出生的生命却无穷无尽。大自然是个败家子。你看看鱼和它数以百万计的卵吧。就这个问题而言，也不妨看看你和我。在我们的腰眼里就存在着生产数百万的生命的可能性。我们要是能够有时间和机会利用我们身上的每一个没有诞生的生命，直到最后的一个，我们就可能成为好多个国家的父亲，是好多个大陆都挤满了人。生命？呸！生命是没有价值的东西，在廉价的东西里它是最廉价的。生命在到处乞讨。大自然在大把大把地抛撒着生命。在只容得下一条生命的地方她播下了一千条生命。生命吞噬着生命，直到最强的和最贪婪的存活了下来。”

"We were talking about this yesterday," he said. "I held that life was a ferment, a yeasty something which devoured life that it might live, and that living was merely successful piggishness. Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents. Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left."