To be alive is to be mortal. To be alive is to be, from moment to moment, a survivor.
活着就意味着终有一死。活着就意味着每时每刻都是一个幸存者。
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Behavior, as such, is not to be regarded as a mere chain of muscular contractions, but rather as a purposive and cognitive affair.