"Mary Wilson Gilchrist, a Civil War-era Ohioan who lived at home until her sudden death at the age of 24...kept in her diary a list of the books she read: Charlotte Bronte, William Makepiece Thackeray, Henry Fielding, William Wordsworth, Virgil, Sophocles, and David Hume ('Difficult,' she wrote of Hume....')"
Saturday, September 15, 2007
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)
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