Author of quotes: Simone Weil

Truth lies on the side of death.

Imaginary evil is romantic, diverse. The real evil is gloomy, monotonous, deserted, boring. Imaginary good is boring real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

All sins are attempts to fill the void.

We must assume that no kindness can go further than justice - otherwise we risk to enter a false understanding of goodness. But we should be grateful to the just man because he is just, since justice is a thing to such a degree beautiful...

The opium of the people - not a religion but a revolution.

Beauty seduces the flesh, so she was allowed to penetrate the soul.

Distance is the soul of beauty.

After the death ideas are dead.

Under the "vital economic interests" the government has in mind is not what is necessary for life, and what is necessary for war.

If in man there is something really good, then perhaps that something he himself does not know.

Our real life more than 3/4 consist of imagination and fantasy.