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theoceanislikeyou · 6 months
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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victusinveritas · 4 months
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araekni · 2 months
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June Jordan, Kissing God Goodbye
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Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self
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Maggie Nelson, Bluets
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Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
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Zarina Situmorang, Faith
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Richard Siken, Scheherazade
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e. e. cummings, #38 from 73 poems
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Homero Aridjis (attrib.)
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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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treelimbs · 5 months
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A man drinks a glass of water. The water is God's "I love you". He is two days in the desert without finding anything to drink. The dryness in his throat is God's "I love you". God is like an importunate woman who clings to her lover, whispering in his ear for hours without stopping: "I love you- I love you- I love you- I love you..."
Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, trans. Richard Rees
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virgin-martyr · 6 months
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That is why mysticism is the only source of virtue for humanity. Because when men do not believe that there is infinite mercy behind the curtain of the world, or when they think that this mercy is in front of the curtain, they become cruel.
Simone Weil, excerpt from "He Whom We Must Love is Absent" Gravity and Grace
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sighcomics · 1 year
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as Simone Weil said, 'Let us love this distance, since those who do not love each other are not separated.'
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hairtusk · 1 year
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Simone Weil, 'Void and Compensation' (in Gravity and Grace, trans. Emma Craufurd)
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beguines · 4 months
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, tr. Emma Crawford
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non-beingnary · 8 months
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Philosophers on barbie movie
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elishanelsonfanacct · 11 months
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i love you / i fear you / i need you
mary renault, the national, white oleander, maggie nelson, heathers: the musical, margaret atwood, nikita kadan, jenny holzer, margaret atwood, ida aplebroog, simone weil (tr. arthur wills), richard siken, unknown, unknown, angela carter, the sopranos, mary oliver
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n3p2ne · 7 months
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Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
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imtoopure · 5 months
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Anne Carson quoting Simone Weil in Decreation
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xjmlm · 1 year
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She [Simone Weil] intrigued me because of her great reputation for intelligence and her bizarre get-up … A great famine had broken out in China, and I was told that when she heard the news she had wept: these tears compelled my respect much more than her gifts as a philosopher. I envied her having a heart that could beat right across the world. I managed to get near her one day. I don’t know how the conversation got started; she declared in no uncertain tones that only one thing mattered in the world: the revolution which would feed all the starving people of the earth. I retorted, no less peremptorily, that the problem was not to make men happy, but to find the reason for their existence. She looked me up and down: ‘It’s easy to see you’ve never been hungry,’ she snapped.
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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incure · 7 months
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Gravity and Grace, Void and Compensation, Simone Weil.
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doomsayings · 1 year
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There's a mystery in my crouching here like a beast of prey, flesh gripped by hunger. It's completely absurd: "Is God an animal I'd like to tear apart?" ...But I'm sicker than that. My hunger holds no interest for me. Rather than eat, my desire is to be eaten.
Georges Bataille, Guilty
And there God is waiting to eat him. Later he will go out again, but he will be changed, he will have become different, after being eaten and digested by God.
Simone Weil, Waiting for God
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simone weil said "absolutely unmixed attention is prayer." to pay absolute attention to the injustice in the world is to recognize the absence of God in the world. to pay attention to God's absence is to manifest his presence in the places where he is most needed, for the most vulnerable, for those who need him the most, for those he loves: the ones to whom he gives attention.
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