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The Sufferings of Young Werther
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe14 ratings, 4.00 average rating, 0 reviews
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“May. 10
A wonderful cheerfulness has taken possession of my whole soul, similar to the sweet spring mornings which I enjoy with all my heart. I am alone and glad to be alive in this locality, which was created for such souls as mine. I am so happy, dear friend, so completely immersed in the realization of a tranquil existence, that my art is suffering neglect. I could not draw at all now, not a line, and yet I have never been a greater painter than I am now. When the beloved valley streams around me, and the lofty sun rests on the surface of the impenetrable darkness of my forest with only single rays stealing into the inner sanctuary, then I lie in the tall grass beside the murmuring brook, while on the earth near me a thousand varies grasses strike me as significant; when I feel the swarming life of the little world between the grass-blades, the innumerable, unfathomable shapes of the tiny worms and flies, closer to my heart, and feel the presence of the Almighty, who created us in his image, feel the breath of the all-loving one, who, afloat in eternal rapture, bears and sustains us”
― The Sufferings of Young Werther
A wonderful cheerfulness has taken possession of my whole soul, similar to the sweet spring mornings which I enjoy with all my heart. I am alone and glad to be alive in this locality, which was created for such souls as mine. I am so happy, dear friend, so completely immersed in the realization of a tranquil existence, that my art is suffering neglect. I could not draw at all now, not a line, and yet I have never been a greater painter than I am now. When the beloved valley streams around me, and the lofty sun rests on the surface of the impenetrable darkness of my forest with only single rays stealing into the inner sanctuary, then I lie in the tall grass beside the murmuring brook, while on the earth near me a thousand varies grasses strike me as significant; when I feel the swarming life of the little world between the grass-blades, the innumerable, unfathomable shapes of the tiny worms and flies, closer to my heart, and feel the presence of the Almighty, who created us in his image, feel the breath of the all-loving one, who, afloat in eternal rapture, bears and sustains us”
― The Sufferings of Young Werther