When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone WeilThere is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Simone WeilMost works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone WeilIn order to obey God, one must receive his commands. How did it happen that I received them in adolescence, while I was professing atheism? To believe that the desire for good is always fulfilled - that is faith, and whoever has it is not an atheist.
Simone Weil