“I should not love my suffering because it is useful. I should love it because it is… We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.”— Simone Weil (1909-1943), from “Affliction”
in “Gravity and Grace”, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Where is the real? All appearance are deceitful, the visible surface is deceptive. I look at my hand…it is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: It is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still: an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?”— Salvador Dali
