Quote of the Day (Simone Weil, on Writers’ Moral Duties)

“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)