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Quotation by Thomas Merton
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"Reason and Reasoning" The Ascent to Truth, Harcourt Brace (1951)"Reason in the Life of Contemplation" The Ascent to Truth, Harcourt Brace (1951)Secular Journal Farrar, Straus (1959)"The Fork in the Road" Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Doubleday (1966)The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.
Thomas Merton (1915–1968), U.S. religious writer, poet. The Seven Storey Mountain, pt. 1, ch. 3 (1948).
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