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  • 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.

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

  • All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

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  • 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.

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    Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

  • 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.

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

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

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    Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.56, Psychology Press
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Simone Weil

  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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