Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

现代性是短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的,构成了艺术的一半,而另一半则是永恒的、不可改变的。这一瞬息万变、瞬息万变的因素决不能轻视或忽视。

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If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

如果评论家对我的私生活有意见,那是他们的意见。任何有半个大脑的人都会意识到,图表才是最重要的。

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

当国家与现代化作斗争时,落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

两个一半的哲学家可能永远不会成为一个完整的形而上学家。

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

现代性是一个定性的范畴,而不是一个时间的范畴。