Simone Weil

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.