GoodTaste
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Does "know" here mean "experience"? Checking out "know" in dictionaries gives me the impression that the meaning of "know" is elusive. If you never experience mean and petty behaviors, you don't have that kind of past.
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Man's dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once. He must live so as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he can say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
Source: English translation from a former Soviet writer's book How Steel Is Made (the title is translated by me from Chinese. The above quotation is apparently translated by a native English speaker from Russian)
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Man's dearest possession is life, and it is given to him to live but once. He must live so as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he can say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world - the fight for the Liberation of Mankind.
Source: English translation from a former Soviet writer's book How Steel Is Made (the title is translated by me from Chinese. The above quotation is apparently translated by a native English speaker from Russian)