American - Author | January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
Thomas Merton
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
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