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— Simone Weil"There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies."
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Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
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