Conor Cruise O'Brien on Weil and hypocrisy

From On the Eve of the Millenium, pp 101–102:

Hypocrisy indeed is inseparable from all forms of social life. No one can live with a really determined and consistent enemy of all hypocrisy. Molière made that point in Le Misanthrope, and Ibsen in The Wild Duck. In the twentieth century Simone Weil rejected the teachings of Molière and Ibsen as corrupting. She insisted on nothing but the truth, in her writings and in her personal life. Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding. Said Weil: "Any sentence that begins with the word 'We' is a lie." It was a lie that she refused to tell . . . . CONTINUE