| Author Quoted | Brice Parain |
| Title Quoted | Mort de Jean Madec |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1950/01/03 |
| Imprint | Paris : Grasset. 1945 |
| Quotation | There is a beautiful passage on manual labor in La Mort de Jean Madec. It tells me one reason why I like the book so much. I am secretly reading it as a new and more interesting edition of the Cistercian Spiritual Directory. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 392 |
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