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10 апреля 2021 г., 10:08
Hunger has always been seen as a unique form of suffering that can lead to insight,
both in art and religion. Asceticism brings us closer to our version of God.
The monks in their monasteries, the artists in their garrets—they grow lean
and leaner and more spiritual and more artistic. That may have been
Kafka’s joke at the end: all his faster wanted was better food, not the truth,
not a deeper understanding of life, but a desire for more than what life can offer.
