Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

-- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

现代性意味着短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的，艺术的一半是永恒的，另一半是不可改变的。

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

我认为，通过把事物想象成从一个永恒的外部世界进入时间的洪流，而不是把时间看作是吞噬一切的暴君，才能获得一个更真实的世界形象。

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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

对我来说，它总是依赖于获得一种声音——这种声音总是暗示着它应该是什么样的旋律。所以它总是先发出声音，然后再发出声音。

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That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

地狱和永恒的惩罚是人类头脑中最荒谬、最令人不快的想法。

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