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“There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.”

Giving Heart May Important Book Self Sometimes Reason Facts Use Feelings Economy Notes Instinct Satisfaction Vanity Confession Smallest Publish Diaries Crumbs Self-satisfaction

Author:Alberto Moravia

“The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.”

Believe May Children Enough Understanding Circumstances Instinct Terror Ghost Ignorant Educated Former Latter Troublesome Just Believe

Book:The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers

Source: The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers

“Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.”

Knows Men Writing May Crime Ought Mere Instinct Verses

Book:Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

Source: Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes

“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.”

Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious