| Author Quoted | Martin Buber |
| Title Quoted | I and Thou |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1958/04/20 |
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| Quotation | Buber's I and Thou, in an execrable translation, very difficult to follow at first. An important book, in which I am confronted with the hollowness and falsity of my own life - yet the comfort that right here, this writing is an "I-Thou" writing - isn't it? But so much other writing which is nothing but a closed door. I close the door on Thee by giving Thee too many standard names, and hiding Thee with concepts - Then inviting everyone to stand in front of the door I have closed in their face. |
| 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. 192-93 |
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