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It is not the neutrality of stone that we should seek, but the engagement of fire. The stone endures; the fire transforms. And it is only in transformation that anything lives.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1947)

4w ago

The truth is that every living thing needs primarily to live. The seed struggles toward life with the same urgency as the man. And to live is to create, which is to say, to organize matter according to a dream.

2mo ago

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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

It is terrible to survive as consciousness buried in the dark earth. Then it was over: that which you fear, being a soul and unable to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth bending a little.

3mo ago

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