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Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon

you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of

nothing.... A new Hedonism-that is what our century wants. You

might be its visible symbol. With your personality there is

nothing you could not do. The world belongs to you for a

season.... The moment I met you I saw that you were quite

unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be.

There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell

you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if

you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth

will last-such a little time. 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.