That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  • -- Edgar Allan Poe 埃德加·艾伦·坡

我坚持认为,那种最纯洁、最高尚、最强烈的快乐,来自对美的沉思。

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

生命的终极价值取决于意识和沉思的力量,而不仅仅是生存。

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

很少有人能触及到表面,更不用说对自己经历的沉思了。

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

亲吻,即使对着空气,也是美丽的。

Nothing that beautiful lasts forever.

没有什么是永恒的。