Sunday, 21 January 2024

Guy Savoy

Chef

“I am your labyrinth.”- Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Even if the sacrifices which are made to duty and virtue are painful to make, they are well repaid by the sweet recollections which they leave at the bottom of the heart.”- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions


24/7 chastity evokes the same feelings 

“Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.”- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

Edwardian London

Dangerous

“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called into question. Things are arranged more easily and more satisfactorily without the intervention of the state. And in studying the progress made in this direction, we are led to conclude that the tendency of the human race is to reduce government interference to zero; in fact, to abolish the state, the personification of injustice, oppression and monopoly.”- Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread