| Author Quoted | Eugène Ionesco |
| Title Quoted | Notes et contre-notes |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/12/02 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1962 |
| Quotation | Hurray for Ionesco! He has some very good ideas, and here is one of them (against those obsessed with ideologies and with theories of history.) "Nous sommes pris tons dans une sorte de complexe historique et nous appartenons à un certain moment de l'histoire-qui cependent est loin de nous absorber entièrement et qui au contraire n ‘exprime et ne contient que le part la moins essentielle de nous mêmes." ["We are all of us caught in a kind of historical complex and belong to one special moment in history-which is, however, far from absorbing us entirely but rather expresses and contains only the least essential part of us."] (Notes et contre-notes [1962], p. 16) |
| Quotation Source | Dancing 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. 173 |
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