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Author QuotedRaïssa Maritain
Title QuotedChagall: Ou l'orage enchantre
Date (Year/Month/Day)1964/08/09
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1948
QuotationRaïssa Maritain in her book on [Marc] Chagall [Chagall: Où l'orage enchante, 1948] speaks of the light of New York (the best for seeing Chagall's paintings). I agree: I was struck by that light above all in June. So much clearer, braver, more uncompromising than Louisville: a vague town
Quotation SourceDancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 134
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