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Author QuotedAndre Marie Jean Festugière
Title QuotedContemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon
Date (Year/Month/Day)1960/10/24
ImprintParis : J. Vrin. 1936I
QuotationCoffee after night office and the good long silence until Prime. Deliciae meae. [My delights.] This is something wonderful, and in this silence, reading Festugière, I have finally come to admit to what extent I have always been a Platonist. My reservations about Plato have gone, since the Phaedo (understanding of course always that one is not obliged to agree with every theory!).
Quotation SourceTurning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 59
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