这段话太厉害了，翻译一下：

I […] judge the poem to be neither truth nor fiction but rather Dante's knowing, which he chose to name Beatrice. When you know most intensely, you do not necessarily decide whether it is truth or fiction; what you know primarily is that the knowing is truly your own. Sometimes we call such knowing by the name of "loving," almost invariably with the conviction that the experience is permanent. Most often it departs and leaves us bewildered, but we are not Dante and cannot write the Comedy, so all we finally know is loss.

我认为这部诗（注：《神曲》）既非真相，也非虚构，而是但丁的所知，他选择将其命名为碧雅特丽斯。当你深刻地知道某事的时候，你并不总是将它归于真相或虚构；你所知的是它真正属于你。有时，我们把这种知识叫作“爱”，并且一厢情愿地认为它必定是长久的。事实上，它往往会离我们而去，徒留我们茫然不已，但我们不是但丁，也写不出《神曲》，所以我们最终知道的不过是失去。

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「知」与「爱」是同一件事。以及，

——我们最终知道的不过是失去。啊。