“Writers do not have to be professors of morals, but
they do have to express the human condition. And nothing concerns human life so
essentially, for every man at every moment, as good and evil. When literature
becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays
its function and forfeits all claims to excellence.”—Simone Weil, “The
Responsibility of Writers,” in The Simone Weil Reader, edited by George A. Panichas (1977)
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