Magazine - Year 2016 - Version 2
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“ Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the
reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in
which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it,
and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you...Time is jealous
of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-
cheeked, and dull-eyed...Ah! Realize your youth while you have it....Live! Live the wonderful
life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations.
Be afraid of nothing...The world belongs to you for a season...how tragic it would be if
you were wasted; for there is such a little time that your youth will last. The common hill
flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is
now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green
night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of
joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We
degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we
were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield
to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.”
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
