“We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”
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“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
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“What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
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