Simone Weil


Gravity and Grace
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind
Waiting for God
Oppression and Liberty
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Simone Weil: An Anthology
War and the Iliad
Letter to a Priest
The Iliad, or The Poem of Force
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
The Notebooks of Simone Weil
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us
Simone Weil
Simone Weil: A Life
First and last notebooks
Simone Weil
Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.
Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation

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