Quotes from Adalbert de Vogüé

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.

People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.