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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I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

我是说,我喜欢我的演员工作。但通过倡导和支持研究来改变人们的生活——这是很少有人能得到的特权,而且肯定比每周四在电视上看半个小时更重要。

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

现代性:我们创造了没有英雄主义的青春,没有智慧的老年,没有宏伟壮丽的人生。

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

我怕撒但,不及怕他之人的一半。

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。