#fasting

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

— Hermann Hesse

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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ↗

— Carre Otis

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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

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