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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”