Into this Universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing: And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
来到宇宙中,不知为何,也不知从何而来,像水一般不由自主地流淌;离开时又如荒野上的风,不知去向,身不由己地吹过。
— Omar Khayyam · Rubáiyát, XXIX · Edward FitzGerald, first edition (1859) —