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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

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
Real, Lying, Giving
Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

Simone Weil
Lying, Greatness, Suffering
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.81, Psychology Press

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Simone Weil
Lying, Insomnia, Doors

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Simone Weil
Truth, Lying, People

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

Simone Weil
Lying, Rights, Two
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.86, Psychology Press

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Simone Weil
Faith, Lying, Soul
Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.81, Routledge

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.

Simone Weil
Lying, Ideas, Evil

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil
Pain, Lying, Hatred

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil
Spiritual, Lying, Greatness
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.94, Routledge

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil
Lying, Greatness, Civilization
"The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind".

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil
Stars, Lying, Moon
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.121, Psychology Press

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