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"When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities . . . and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation . . . when I consider al this . . . I am silent. I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power."
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Goethe wrote this when he was 24, just out of boyhood. The prose is beautiful, but the sentiments read like they come from a 13 or 14 year old... very immature, very self absorbed, as that age is. Yes, it was 1773 and people had not been exposed to romanticism. The book caused numerous copycat suicides, and still could in the wrong hands. I wonder how Goethe felt about this work in his later years. I would be embarrassed. For me, this classic was intolerably boring and annoying.
Tale of unrequited Love. Werther is obsessed with Charlotte who is engaged to be married. Albert, her fiancee returns from his travels and they are married but Werther can not stop loving her. Passionate. Gloomy. Dramatic end.
This will join the list of books that I should have skipped.
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