Photograph for Simone Weil’s identity card at the Renault plant, 1935.
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anne carson from decreation
All the things that I see, hear, breathe, touch, eat; all the beings I meet – I deprive the sum total of all that of contact with God, and I deprive God of contact with all that in so far as something in me says “I”’
Simone Weil
William Wordsworth, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf in The Waves, Alice Oswald, Jean Dubuffet in his “Anticultural Position” speech, Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
Where compassion is concerned, crime itself provides a reason, not for withdrawing oneself, but for approaching, not with the object of sharing the guilt, but the shame. Mankind’s crimes didn’t diminish Christ’s compassion. Thus compassion keeps both eyes open on both the good and the bad and finds in each sufficient reasons for loving. It is the only love on this earth which is true and righteous.
Simone Weil
Let a girl choose death – Janis Joplin, Simone Weil– and death becomes her definition, the outcome of her “problems.” To be female still means beng trapped within the purely psychological. No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope’s turned back on her. Because emotion’s just so terrifying the world refuses to believe that it can be pursued as a discipline, as form.
Chris Kraus – I Love Dick
(I’ll stop quoting it when it stops being phenomenal.)
simone weil
S. Weil is right; it’s not the human being that must be protected, but the possibilities within him. Moreover, she says, “one doesn’t enter truth without having passed through one’s own annihilation, without having lived at length in a state of total and extreme humiliation.”
Little Bristling Soul 