When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone WeilWhat is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
Simone WeilIt is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone WeilThere is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
Simone Weil