"I used to dread her visits," says Fr. Jacques Loew, then the editorial secretary of the review, Économie et humanisme, for which Simone had written an article in 1941 on her experiences as a factory worker. "I dreaded her because I sensed in her a compassion for the unhappy pushed almost beyond the limit of the bearable. I experienced the dogma of the communion of saints. Those visits were a moment of truth for me. In comparison with her, I felt myself miserable. My presence with the stevedores did not have Simone's human and spiritual quality. At the root of the gratitude I feel towards her is the vision of the disparity between what she lived and what I was."
--Gabriella Fiori, Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography
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