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Moving glacially through this, because Weil just drops things like this:

"Evil is to love, what mystery is to the intellegence. As mystery compels the virtue of faith to be supernatural, so does evil the virtue of charity."

"...every contact with good leads to a knowledge of the distance between good and evil and the commencement of a painful effort of assimilation.... The corresponding sin cannot come about unless a lack of hope makes the consciousness of the distance intolerable, and changes pain into hatred. Hope is a remedy in this respect. But a better remedy is indifference to ourselves, being happy because the good is good..."

"There is, as it were, a phagocytosis in the soul: everything which is threatened by time secretes falsehood in order not to die, and in proportion to the danger it is in of dying. That is why there is not any love of truth without an unconditional acceptance of death."

“É uma covardia procurar nas pessoas que amamos (ou desejar dar a elas) um reconforto diferente daquele oferecido pelas obras de arte, que nos ajudam pelo simples fato de que existem.”