| Author Quoted | Georges Bernanos |
| Title Quoted | Journal d'un cure de campagne |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/07/30 |
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| Quotation | "Je crois de plus que ce que nous appelons tristesse, angoisse, desespoir, comme pour nous persuader qu'il s'agit de certains mouvements de l'ame, est cette ame même, que depuis la chute, la condition de l'homme est telle qu'il ne saurait plus rien percevoir en lui et hors de lui que sous la forme de l'angoisse." ["I believe more and more that what we call sadness, anguish, despair, as if to persuade ourselves that it is a question of certain impulses of the soul, is really the soul itself, and that since the fall the condition of man is such that he is not capable of perceiving anything in himself and outside of himself except in the form of anguish."] Bernanos |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 350 |
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