God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

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If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Amelie Nothomb in Fear and Trembling
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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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