Gaston Bachelard says the single most succinct and astonishing thing:
We begin in admiration and we end by organizing our disappointment.



加斯顿-巴什拉 (Gaston Bachelard) 说过一句最简洁、最令人惊讶的话:
我们始于欣赏,我们终于失望。







The moment of admiration is the experience of something unfiltered,
vital and fresh—it could also be horror—

欣赏的时刻是一种对未经过滤的、有活力的和新鲜的东西的体验--它也可能是恐怖的--







and the moment of organization is both the onset of disappointment and its dignification;
the least we can do is dignify our knowingness, the loss of some vitality through familiarization,
by admiring not the thing itself
but how we can organize it, think about it.


而一个开始组织结构的时刻既是失望的开始,也是失望的尊严;
我们至少可以做的是通过欣赏而不是事物本身,
而是我们如何组织它、思考它,
来使我们的知性、
因熟悉而失去的一些活力得到尊严。




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