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" BACK IN THE WORLD, I FELT LIKE A MAN THAT HAD COME down from the rare atmosphere of a very high mountain. When I got to Louisville, I had already been up for four hours or so, and my day was getting on towards its noon, so to speak, but I found that everybody else was just getting up and having breakfast and going to work. And how strange it was to see people walking around as if they had some­ thing important to do, running after busses, reading the newspapers, lighting cigarettes.

How futile all their haste and anxiety seemed. "

Thomas Merton , The Seven Storey Mountain


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Thomas Merton quote : BACK IN THE WORLD, I FELT LIKE A MAN THAT HAD COME down from the rare atmosphere of a very high mountain. When I got to Louisville, I had already been up for four hours or so, and my day was getting on towards its noon, so to speak, but I found that everybody else was just getting up and having breakfast and going to work. And how strange it was to see people walking around as if they had some­ thing important to do, running after busses, reading the newspapers, lighting cigarettes.<br /><br />How futile all their haste and anxiety seemed.