Status Updates From La Pesanteur et la Grâce

Book #13 of 2026. Born in 1909, Simone Weil was a contemporary of Sartre / Camus & classmate of de Beauvoir @ Sorbonne. Weil wasn’t just a philosopher, she was an activist who fought in the Spanish war and even worked in a car factory. Gravity & Space is composed of 30 short chapters that looks at things like Illusion, Love, Attention, Beauty and Chance. “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”

“Deus realmente não existe da mesma maneira que as coisas criadas — que constituem, para as nossas faculdades naturais, o único objeto de experiência. Por isso, o contato com a realidade sobrenatural é vivido como uma experiência do vazio.”