#simone weil

[rini-descartes]

Persepolis (2007)

[soracities]

Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks (trans. Richard Rees) [ID'd]

[theoptia]

Simone Weil, from Gravity and Grace

[philosophybits]

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. [...] Deprivation of this poetry explains all forms of demoralization.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[funeral]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[apocryphics]

Simone Weil

[wildboten]

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.

- Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[angelhive]

Simone Weil, ‘Contradiction’, in Gravity and Grace (1947).