All the natural movements of the soul are governed by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace alone is the exception.
Tous les mouvements naturels de l'ame sont regis par des lois analogues a celles de la pesanteur materielle. La grace seule fait exception.
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Simone Weil
Born in Paris in 1909, Simone Weil died at 34, leaving behind a body of thought that defies conventional classification. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure, she voluntarily became a factory worker, forging from the crucible of physical suffering a philosophy centered on 'affliction' (malheur) and 'attention' (attention). Her posthumous collection Gravity and Grace, edited by Camus, has been read across the boundaries of religion, philosophy, and social thought ever since.
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