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"Eating and Drinking"
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Nationality of Author:
"German"
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Literary Period:
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"Victorian"
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Work title:
"On Reading and Books [from Parerga and Paralipomena]"
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"Prose"
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Date: 1851
"Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)