Simone Weil
1909 – 1943 · France · Philosophy, Theology
Wrote on attention, affliction and rootedness while working the factory floor.
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- Albert Camus
1913 – 1960 · Literature, Philosophy
Camus edited Weil's posthumous works and called her the era's only great spirit.
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