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In louisville, at the corner of fourth and walnut, in the center of the shopping district, i was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that i loved all those people, that they were mine and i theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.

-Thomas Merton

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In Louisville, At The Corner Of Fourth

Thomas Merton

In louisville, at the corner of fourth and walnut, in the center of the shopping district, i was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that i loved all those people, that they were mine and i theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.

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A thing which i regret, and which i will try to remedy some time, is that i have never in my life planted a walnut. nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. if you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

In the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered kaddish for all suicides: praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved praise to life though its windows blew shut on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved praise to life though ones we knew and loved loved it badly, too well, and not enough praise to life though it tightened like a knot on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us praise to life giving room and reason to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable. praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.

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