Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Manuscript found in Saragossa
Berlin Alexanderplatz

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>XVIII.
> O hour of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth,
> Blessed hour of our dinners!
> The land of his birth;
> The face of his first love; the bills that he owes;
> The twaddle of friends and the venom of foes;
> The sermon he heard when to church he last went;
> The money he borrow'd, the money he spent;—
> All of these things, a man, I believe, may forget,
> And not be the worse for forgetting; but yet
> Never, never, oh never! earth's luckiest sinner
> Hath unpunish'd forgotten the hour of his dinner!
> Indigestion, that conscience of every bad stomach,
> Shall relentlessly gnaw and pursue him with some ache
> Or some pain; and trouble, remorseless, his best ease,
> As the Furies once troubled the sleep of Orestes.
> XIX.
> We may live without poetry, music, and art:
> We may live without conscience, and live without heart;
> We may live without friends; we may live without books;
> But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
> He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving?
> He may live without hope,—what is hope but deceiving?
> He may live without love,—what is passion but pining?
> But where is the man that can live without dining?

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very true