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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well,if one has not dined well.

— Virginia Woolf ‧ A Room of One's Own (1929)

Painterly whole and halved pear on a dark plate beside an overturned wine glass on plum.
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Here the pleasures of the mind and heart are tied directly to something as ordinary as a good meal, suggesting that clear thinking, affection, and rest all depend on being properly nourished first. It treats appetite not as a distraction from higher pursuits but as their necessary foundation.

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