“Because it is dangerous to
ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is,
the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some
method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to
subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen
until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay,
often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
―
Donna Tartt,
The Secret History
