Thomas Merton on Good Books

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[Books] that speak like good men hold us by their human charm; we grow by finding ourselves in them. They teach us to know ourselves better by recognizing ourselves in another. Books that speak like the noise of multitudes reduce us to despair by the sheer weight of their emptiness.

-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

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