Sila Blume
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Nietzsche’s Risotto
Typically, however much we enjoy eating, we do not normally think that what we put on our plates is particularly meaningful. One person who took a different view was the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In January 1877, while staying in Italy, he wrote a letter to his mother mentioning that he had discovered…
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An updated childhood memory
A common childhood breakfast was a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, some minced or chopped garlic, and whole wheat toast dipped on it. In Vienna I discovered great coffee, great pastries, great opera, great humor, great wine, and the absolutely amazing pumpkin seed oil from the Styria region
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the wonder of Taste
Taste is metaphysicalmemoryignoredidolizedan experience in its foolish relevance, and poetic importancetranscendental insinuation.It nourishes nothing we can touch, and magnifies all we have been and wish to repeat, within a bountiful sphere of incompletion.
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And yet, we know enough not to question
There has got to be profound truth behind these emotions and thoughts that make me shiver, wet my eyes, fearless, and perpetually hunger with open eyes, in love.
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An Introspective Question
I drive, and drive, towards knowing truth, wanting to understand the inner desire to uncover truth. I contemplate her, and him, those beautiful souls in the bodies of my own blood who I saw and touched as they arrived. And I equally accept, and bathe in the mere joy of their existence, simply so, abstaining…
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Enlightenment Questioned
Is the sapiosexual an intellectual?
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