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　　一个男人在自家地里挖出一尊绝美的大理石雕像。他带着雕像，找到一位酷爱各种艺术品的收藏家，准备出卖。收藏家出了高价买下，事毕后两人分手。

　　回家的路上，卖主手里摆着大把的钱，心喜地自语："这笔钱会带来多少荣华富贵呀！怎么还有人不惜如此代价，换取一块在地下埋了干年，做梦都无人梦见的顽石？不可思议！"

　　同时，收藏家却在端详着雕像，心里也在自语："真是气韵生动，巧夺天工！何等美丽的一个精灵，酣睡了干年之后再度复生！何以有人会以如此稀珍，换取毫无趣味的几个臭钱？"

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Once a man unearthed in his field a marble statue of great beauty. And he took it to a collector who loved all beautiful things and offered it to him for sale, and the collector bought it for a large price. And they parted.

And as the man walked home with his money he thought, and he said to himself, "How much life this money means! How can anyone give all this for a dead carved stone buried and undreamed of in the earth for a thousand years?"

And now the collector was looking at his statue, and he was thinking, and he said to himself, "What beauty! What life! The dream of what a soul! - and fresh with the sweet sleep of a thousand years. How can anyone give all this for money, dead and dreamless?"