#fasting

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Eating three times a day means takingon, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#experience

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. ↗

— David Blaine

#i #idea #isolation #obsessed

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. ↗

— Terry Prachett

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