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  <title><![CDATA[Gravity and Grace (Routledge Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gravity and Grace&lt;/i&gt; was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the priest to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I love Simone Weil for a number of reasons: she is a woman and she is a philosopher who had both her mind and intuition fully active and greatly working. Some idiots think that philosophy is only for men and men only have the capacity for critical thinking. Simone Weil proves them wrong. Other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22995382">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 20 19:31:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic philosopher. Jew turned Christian...died in the Holocaust anyway. <br/><br/>&quot;All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not much can be said as a review of a book like this one. It is itself the sum total of what is possible to say at all. Though it's funny that in some of her opinions she is dead-wrong, and still it doesn't get in the way. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exciting Book! and you learn about a marvelous life, as Simone Weil]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 04 15:45:17 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book does not, for me, exhaust itself after many rereadings. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes Weil seems awfully austere. However, her work is full of soul-rearranging gems like this:<br/>&quot;Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is cer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47761866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[even when i don't agree with her, i love reading weil for incredibly cerebral way of thinking.  no matter how batshit crazy an idea can seem, when she says it i feel like i can graph it, and very often have.  if i could embed photos here, i would show you my joy/pain non-linear line graphs and my ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52633972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Weil published during her lifetime only a few poems and articles. With her posthumous works -- 16 volumes, edited by Andre A. Devaux and Florence de Lussy -- Weil has earned a reputation as one of the most original thinkers of her era. T.S. Eliot described her as &quot;a woman of genius, of a kind o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5952599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is absolutely my favorite book of all time.  I have read through Simone Weil's essays numerous times in the last several years and her words and life have impacted my own life and artwork profoundly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one book from the 20th century absolutely everyone must read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[page 85 - &quot;My 'I' is hidden for me (and for others)&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['contradiction is the point of the pyramid']]></body>
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