Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not w

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire

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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. – Charles Baudelaire

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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. – Charles Baudelaire

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In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. – Herbert M. Shelton

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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. – Athenaeus of Naucratis

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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. – St. Jerome

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[H]appy is he who has fasted in sincerity and truth! Happy he whose humbled heart has expanded in love! – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), “The Fasting God Regards Not,” Evangelical Me

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