I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

  • -- Charles Baudelaire 查尔斯·波德莱尔

我认为描述存在的东西是无用和乏味的,因为存在的东西都不能满足我。大自然是丑陋的,比起那些微不足道的东西,我更喜欢我想象中的怪物。

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It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

这是一片广阔的、孤独的、令人生畏的区域,没有什么东西像云彩和浮石云一样。当然,它也不是一个非常适合居住或工作的地方。

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

花园中的丑陋构成了山中的美丽。

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

漂亮的只有一种,丑陋的有一千种。

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

如果没有任何改变,就不会有蝴蝶。