Gravity and Grace
by Simone Weil(1947)
Philosophyc. 130 pages
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
One great work, every day
by Simone Weil(1947)
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Simone Weil(1947)
Fragments from the notebooks of a woman who worked in factories alongside laborers, who fled France during the Nazi occupation, who starved herself in solidarity with those suffering under occupation, and who died at thirty-four. Simone Weil writes about attention as prayer, about the void at the center of existence, about decreation and grace with a lucidity that feels almost unbearable. These are not arguments but illuminations. Posthumously assembled, the book has the quality of sacred text, each fragment a small detonation in the mind.