Julian Green, Diary 1928-1957. Entry of 3 December 1950, p.223, emphasis added:
Simeone Weil. I know very little about her works and I am reading them at present with astonishment. She touches on all the subjects that move me most and seeks what is deepest in us. Her passion for the absolute makes her kin to the best, and her contempt for what is relative is, I think, unequaled except by St. John of the Cross and Pascal . . . . How many books that were mere literature does she convict of vanity! How many things does she outmode and reduce their contents to nothing! Robert tells me that her conclusions are nonhuman, and I think so too, but that means that she climbs to heights where we find it hard to breathe. A monster of intelligence. There is something about her that horrifies.
See also: Simone Weil on False Gods
and
Simone Weil in the Light of Plato
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