What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness.

短暂是我的信仰，也是我认为最重要的东西。

W hat I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness.

短暂是我的信仰，也是我认为最重要的东西。

Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either.

没有短暂，没有开始与结束、生与死，时间也就不复存在。

Hofmannsthal describes the transitoriness of the time and the space and asks for the meaning of the life.

霍夫曼斯塔描述了时间和空间的易逝性，并对人生的意义发出疑问。

One of the most important characteristics distinguishing man from all other forms of nature is his knowledge of transitoriness, of beginning and end, and therefore of the gift of time.

人同自然界其他事物之间最重要的区别之一就是，人懂得短暂、始与终，所以也了解时间是一种恩赐。