| Author Quoted | Francois Rene Chateaubriand |
| Title Quoted | Vie de Rance |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1966/10/29 |
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| Quotation | I am reading Chateaubriand's Vie de Rance for the first time. It is an extraordinary piece of writing, constantly on the edge of surrealist poetry. I wonder if Jean Cocteau had ever read it. He would have been delighted with it. |
| Quotation Source | The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.; Selected and edited by Christine M. Bochen. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1993, p. 48 |
| Letter to | Jacques Maritain |
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