“Isn't the very fact that convents exist dazzling evidence enough of the presence of the Spirit, unsatisfactory and odd as their inmates often are?”

—  Ida Friederike Görres

Broken Lights p. 79 Diaries 1951-1952.

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Austrian writer and noble 1901–1971

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