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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther Quotes: if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
         

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.


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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.



What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?



I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.



I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.



It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.



I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.



Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.



It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.



Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.



Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.





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