| Author Quoted | Hannah Arendt |
| Title Quoted | Origins of Totalitarianism |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/05/13 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Schocken Books. 1951 |
| Quotation | I have been reading a fabulous book, The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, the one who wrote such a good one on [The Origins of] Totalitarianism. This is very fine, once one gets into it. And for once someone is saying something really new, though it is also really old. I recommend it. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 395 |
| Letter to | John Harris |
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