Humility is attentive patience. – Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

Humility is attentive patience. – Simone Weil
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers