Je crois qu'il faut presque toujours un coup de folie pour bâtir un destin. - Marguerite Yourcenar

But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides.

Leisure moments: each life well regulated has some such intervals, and he who cannot make way for them does not know how to live.

At this period of his existence, meat and blood, entrails, and all that had ever lived and breathed disgusted him as food, for an animal dies in pain just as man does, and it repelled him to be digesting death's agony.