Quotes by Weil, Simone

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the ins >>

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the E >>

Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds f >>

Quotations about Fiction

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the >>

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in thos >>

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep l >>

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.

Weil, Simone