If by persevering in love we reach the point where our soul can no longer hold back from saying, “My God, why have you forsaken me?”, if we remain at that point without ceasing to love, we end up by touching something that is neither misfortune, nor joy: it is the central essence, essential, pure, and ineffable, common to both joy and pain, which is the love of God itself.
Simone Weil
L’avventura di uno sguardo puro
Città Nuova, Roma 2001, p. 96