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“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.”
—Simone Weil
“The future is made of the same stuff as the present.”
—Simone Weil
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
—Simone Weil
“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.”
—Simone Weil
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
—Simone Weil
“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”
—Simone Weil
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”
—Simone Weil
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
—Simone Weil
“Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”
—Simone Weil
“The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.”
—Simone Weil
“When we see the world, the image we see is not only a reflection of the world, it is also a reflection of us.”
—Simone Weil
“Humility consists in knowing that in what we call ‘I’ there is no source of energy by which we can rise. Everything, without exception, that is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift, but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.”
—Simone Weil
Random Collection of Essays, Poems, and Books
Clarice Lispector “Love” “One Day Less” Alejandra Pizarnik Excerpt from Diana’s Tree Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber Helene Cixous “Coming to Writing” Stigmata Alice Notley “Iphigenia” Julia Kristeva “On the Melancholic Imaginary” Excerpt from Black Sun The Kristeva Reader Franz Kafka Letters to Milena
Ingeborg Bachmann Collected Poems Simone Weil The First and Last Notebooks “The Iliad, of the Poem of Force” Velimir Khlebnikov Collected Works Vol I Vol II Vol III
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Bluets
Susan Sontag Illness as Metaphor “Against Interpretation”
Roland Barthes The Pleasure of Text Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Vol 1
Random Collection of Essays, Poems, and Books
Clarice Lispector “Love” “One Day Less” Alejandra Pizarnik Excerpt from Diana’s Tree Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber Helene Cixous “Coming to Writing” Stigmata Alice Notley “Iphigenia” Julia Kristeva “On the Melancholic Imaginary” Excerpt from Black Sun The Kristeva Reader Franz Kafka Letters to Milena
Ingeborg Bachmann Collected Poems Simone Weil The First and Last Notebooks “The Iliad, of the Poem of Force” Velimir Khlebnikov Collected Works Vol I Vol II Vol III
Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Bluets
Susan Sontag Illness as Metaphor “Against Interpretation”
Roland Barthes The Pleasure of Text Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Vol 1
“If only I knew how to disappear there would be a perfect union of love between God and the earth I tread, the sea I hear…”
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Simone Weil, The Simone Weil Reader (ed. by G. Panichas, as cited in A. Carson’s “Decreation, How Women like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God”)
Original — Si seulement je savais disparaître, il y aurait union d’amour parfait entre Dieu et la terre où je marche, la mer que j’entends…
Simone Weil, “Void and Compensation”, Simone Weil: An Anthology
[Text ID: “The tendency to spread evil beyond oneself: I still have it! Beings and things are not sacred enough to me. May I never sully anything, even though I be utterly transformed into mud.To sully nothing, even in thought. Even in my worst moments I would not destroy a Greek statue or a fresco by Giotto. Why anything else then? Why, for example, a moment in the life of a human being who could have been happy for that moment.”]
In Arabic the word for logos (logic, nous, psyche) is aeql, which literally means “to bond”, forming connections between things.
2/100 days of productivity
Nothing out of normalcy occurred, revised some Russian verbs, did some Italian translations and listened to my daily French and Spanish podcasts. Did some readings for my Astro lectures and revised my Calculus and Waves lecture notes alongside some exercises.
I’ve also finally joined my university’s language research centre, which means that besides my Italian seminars I’ll be able to be involved in many other language classes and cultural exchange programs!
I’m currently reading some of Simone Weil’s works and they are constantly spiralling me into religious crisis in the middle of random coffee shops… truly an entertaining experience.