In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone WeilA doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone WeilGrace 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.
Simone WeilTo write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil