One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, and one of our major duties should be to preserve it.Appetite is the keenness of living: it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you still have an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its numerous flavours and juices.By appetite, of course, I don't mean just the desire for food, but any condition of unsatisfied desire, any burning in the blood that proves you want more than you' ve got, and that you haven't used up your life.Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did.For appetite,for me, is this state of wanting, which keeps one' s expectations alive.
生活中一項最大的樂趣便是有個好胃口,而我們的主要職責(zé)之一便是保持這一好胃口。食欲是對生活的一種強烈的愿望,這是一種感覺,它告訴你你仍渴望著,你還有許多渴望尚待實現(xiàn),還想繼續(xù)生活在這世界上,品嘗各種風(fēng)味。所謂胃口,當(dāng)然,我不僅僅指對食物的熱望,而且指任何未滿足渴望的情況,任何血液的沸騰都證明了你要的不僅僅是這些,你還未好好享受人生。王爾德說他對那些從未得到滿足者表示遺憾,但對那些已經(jīng)心滿意足的人更感到悲哀。欲望對我來說,是一種渴求的狀態(tài),它使這種希望永遠存在。