Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone WeilNothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
Simone WeilThe role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone WeilEvil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
Simone Weil