When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Simone WeilHuman beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone WeilI only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil