preservation

Even the most beautiful body is soon destroyed by age. Where is beauty then? Only art makes human beauty endure. You must devise an artist’s scheme to preserve it. You must commit suicide at the height of your beauty.
Yukio mishima “A Life in Four Chapters”
(photo: proust on his deathbed by man ray)

“Die young, stay pretty” is so much more concise.
WendyB
August 23, 2008 at 1:56 am
Beautiful, beautiful
Line up top.
Justin
August 23, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Beautiful, beautiful.
erica
August 27, 2008 at 6:18 pm