Only in writing is Simone Weil betrayed into charm; in her life, she made a principle of avoiding it. ‘A beautiful woman,” she writes, ‘looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe that the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.’
—Leslie A. Fiedler, introduction to Waiting for God.
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