The trick, then, isn't to

所以关键不在于
make life as valuable as it could be,

尽量活得有价值
but rather to come to recognize that on balance,

而在于认识到总的来讲
life isn't positive, but negative.

生命不是好事而是坏事
I know that what I'm about to say

我知道我下面要讲的
has a kind of Classics Illustrated simplicity to it,

类似"经典重读"里的简单描写
and it's a bit of an over-exaggeration,

而且有些过于夸张
but in gross terms,

但粗略来讲
we might say the first general outlook--

我们说第一种观点
that life is good and so the loss of it is bad

生命是美好的所以失去它是件坏事
and so the answer is make as much of it as we can while we've got it--

所以趁我们还活着要尽量充实它
you might say that is,

我们可以叫它