“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothin...” — Simone Weil Quote

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

“The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.”

“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”

“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.”

“We have darkness as human beings.”

“I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.”