Those who speak of the spiritual wealth of ascetics deserve to suffer from anorexia. There is no better school for hard-line materialism than a prolonged fast. This obvious fact should finally be attested: asceticism doesn’t enrich the spirit. There is no virtue in deprivation.
Amelie Nothomb in Sulphuric Acid
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