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Diary   /dˈaɪəri/  /dˈaɪri/   Listen
Diary

noun
(pl. diaries)
1.
A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.  Synonym: journal.
2.
A personal journal (as a physical object).



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"Diary" Quotes from Famous Books



... of posturing. It is a nice psychological question whether or not it is possible for one to write a diary with absolutely no thought of its being read by some ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson
... while lying in the Yukon that I heard it. I was deeply impressed with it at the time, and meant to give it to the world as soon as I got home, for I set it all down plain then, but I lost my diary, and half forgot the story—who wouldn't forget a story when he had to make two hundred and ten miles a day on a locomotive and had five children at home? But now, after twenty years, my wife turns up that old diary in the garret this spring while house-cleaning. ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... passion, all the play of her delicate idealistic nature troubled by the contradictions, aspirations, and unhappiness that the dawn of love brings to her, all this is conveyed to us by the simplest and the most consummate art. The diary (chapter xvi.) that Elena keeps is in itself a masterly revelation of a young girl's heart; it has never been equalled by any other novelist. How exquisitely Turgenev reveals his characters may be seen by an examination of the parts Shubin the artist, and ...
— On the Eve • Ivan Turgenev
... an excursion into some new and unexpected transport of existence, for he always had new wonders of heart and mind to reveal in these obscure byways we explored together. They were all too short, and yet too full for time to record them in a diary. These were the hours that one puts away in the secret chamber of unwritten and untold feeling. I turn again to the pages of our scrap book, as one turns to the dictionary, for reserve ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage
... a loose-leaf diary, with each page dated, and of letter size. It covered more than the current year, however, running back for nearly eighteen months. It was as scrupulously edited as a lawyer's engagement book, and curiously enough it was entirely ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball


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