“I too have a growing inner certainty that there is a deposit of pure gold in me which ought to be passed on. The trouble is that I am more and more convinced by my experience and observation of my contemporaries that there is no one to receive it.
It's a dense mass. What gets added to it is of a piece with the rest. As the mass grows it becomes more and more dense. I can't parcel it out into little pieces.”

— Simone Weil

Letter from Simone Weil to her parents, August 1943, five weeks before her death, quoted in introduction, p. 1
Lectures on Philosophy (1959)

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French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909–1943

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