![[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.](/assets/img/quote-photos/simone-weils-life-is-almost-a-perfect-blend-of-the-comic-and-the-terrible-whi.jpg)
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