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In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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Instead of destroying and appropriating to himself nourishment taken from outside, man enters a state of nonviolence and detachment relative to the outside world. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. ↗

— Euripides

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A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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