All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
Simone WeilAt the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
Simone WeilWhat a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone Weil