| Author Quoted | Georges Bernanos |
| Title Quoted | Last Essays of Georges Bernanos |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1956/08/14 |
| Imprint | Chicago : Henry Regnery Co.. 1955 |
| Quotation | On top of this, [Georges] Bernanos' Last Essays of which at least the last is fine (I have not touched any of the others)-again, the importance, the necessity of France. The fool might laugh at his intensity, but he is terribly right. |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 65 |
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