Simone Weil

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is a mystery that should keep us all humble.

... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

is the example of the religious consciousness without a religion.

's life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

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Simone Weil