Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Thomas Merton
Born: January 31, 1915
Died: December 10, 1968 (aged 53)
Bio: Thomas Merton was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in the U.S. state of Kentucky, Merton was an acclaimed Catholic theologian, poet, author and social activist.
Known for:
- The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
- New Seeds of Contemplation (1949)
- Zen and the birds of appetite (1968)
- Thoughts in solitude (1958)
- The Sign of Jonas (1953)
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