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This is a book of brief paragraphs and aphorisms. It can be picked up and read anywhere and give you a thought you've not had before. In fact, many of the ideas will challenge your thinking. Weil was a wild character and this book is posthumous, but don't let that stop you from enjoying the stunning sentences. Examples:
Human life is impossible. But it is only affliction which makes us feel this.
To love truth means to endure the void and, as a result, to accept death. Truth is on the side of death.
We are drawn to a thing because we believe it is good. We end by being chained to it because it has become necessary.
Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition - by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1952 - this Routledge Classics edition offers English readers the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever, by incorporating a specially commissioned translation of…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This novel traces a man's entire life in about 150 pages. The ups and downs and the changes over the course of the 20th Century. It's a little gem of a book, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.
'Heart-rending and heart-warming . . . for all its gentleness, a very powerful novel' Jim Crace
Andreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He leaves his valley just once more,…
