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.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.