Author: Simone Weil

Cited by

• Patrick White (1)
  • IN: A Fringe of Leaves (1976) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: If there is some true good in a man, it can only be unknown to himself.
    FROM: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, (1970), Book, France
• Giorgio Bassani (1)
  • IN: The Smell of Hay (1972) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: One can only offer one's self. Otherwise, everything one calls offering is nothing but a label put on the self's retaliation.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Russell Banks (1)
  • IN: Affliction (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The great enigma of human life is not suffering but affliction.
    FROM: The Love of God and Affliction, (1950), Essay, France
• Yewande Omotoso (1)
  • IN: The Woman Next Door (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The wall is the thing which separates them, but it is also their means of communication.
    FROM: Gravity and Grace, (1947), Book, France
• Michael Gruber (1)
  • IN: Valley of Bones (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are four evidences of divine mercy here below. The favors of God to beings capable of contemplation (these states exist and form part of their experience as creatures). The radiance of these beings, and their compassion, which is the divine compassion in them. The beauty of the world. The fourth evidence is the complete absence of mercy here below.
    FROM: Gravity and Grace, (1947), Book, France
• Philip Roth (1)
  • IN: Letting Go (1961) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
    FROM: Gravity and Grace, (1947), Book, France
• Chris F. Westbury (1)
  • IN: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, even (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: God can only be present in the creation in the form of absence.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France