| Author Quoted | Vasilii Rozanov |
| Title Quoted | Face sombre du Christ |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/04/17 |
| Imprint | Paris : Gallimard. 1964 |
| Quotation | Reading [Vasilii] Rozanov-a new selection has come out in French. He is an important and dire voice, shocking and deeply convincing, completely opposed to the current optimisms and "humanisms," and one cannot help listening seriously to his warnings about structures which are without reservation. True, when he condemns the cosmic Joy of Dostoievsky's Zossima one need not entirely agree-and yet there is [a] point in what he says. Curious how convincing he is, how he compels assent-at least my assent-even though what he says is outrageous and exactly contrary to all the plans of Christians who have decided to convince the world that we are "nice people." |
| 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. 97 |
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