“It is not surprising that in temptation men so often have the feeling of something absolute which infinitely surpasses them, which they cannot resist. The absolute is indeed there.” — Simone Weil, from “The Implicit Forms of the Love of God”
Here, Simone Wiel is talking about the transcendent. Ecstasy. Union. The same moment of connection that the artis…
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