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We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil
Imagination, Suffering, Ugly
Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.199, U of Nebraska Press

Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

Simone Weil
Real, Imagination, Christian Love
Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Simone Weil
Real, History, Imagination
Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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