Status Updates From Penas del joven Werther

As cartas de Werther estão ficando cada vez mais pesadas, quanto mais ele interage com Albert e a noiva dele, que Werther é apaixonado. Os momentos que ele entra num devaneio longo e cheio de analogias, parece o personagem anônimo de ‘Memórias do Subsolo’ de Dostoiévski.

"I still like to read , but since I seldom have the opportunity to read, it must be something I can really enjoy. And I like those writers best who help me find my world again, where the sort of things happen that happen all around me, and the story is as interesting and sympathetic as my own life at home, which may not be paradise but is, on the whole, a source of quite inexplicable joy to me.”

"The illusion that life is but a dream has occurred to quite a few people, and I feel the same way about it. When I see the limitations imposed on man’s powers of action and inquiry and observe how all his efficiency is aimed at nothing but the satisfaction of his needs, which in turn has but one purpose—to prolong his miserable existence"