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“...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater than they really are, and all seem superior to us. This operation of the mind is quite natural: we so continually feel our own imperfections, and fancy we perceive in others the qualities we do not possess, attributing to them also all that we enjoy ourselves, that by this process we form the idea of a perfect, happy man,—a man, however, who only exists in our own imagination.”

Happiness Imagination Solitude

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Whatever is yet to come, I shall never be able to say that I have not felt the greatest, the purest joy life can hold.”

Love Happiness Joy

Author:Goethe Johann Wolfgang von

“To die! - what does it mean? When we speak of death we are only dreaming.”

Death Dreams Dreaming

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“En helaas hebben huwelijken in het algemeen iets lomps. Ze bederven de tederste verhoudingen, en dat komt toch eigenlijk alleen door de botte zekerheid waarvan ten minste één partij profiteert. Alles is vanzelfsprekend en men lijkt de verbintenis alleen gesloten te hebben opdat beiden hun eigen gang kunnen gaan.”

Author:Goethe Johann Wolfgang von