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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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bookshelves: literary-classics, fiction-german, 18-century, 2020, germany, translation, music, rereads
Jul 19, 2011
bookshelves: literary-classics, fiction-german, 18-century, 2020, germany, translation, music, rereads
Read 2 times. Last read May 22, 2020 to December 31, 2020.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
July 19, 2011
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July 19, 2011
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literary-classics
July 19, 2011
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fiction-german
May 22, 2020
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Started Reading
May 22, 2020
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18-century
May 22, 2020
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2020
May 22, 2020
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germany
May 22, 2020
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translation
May 22, 2020
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music
May 22, 2020
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20.34%
".. misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness."
page
24
May 22, 2020
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50.0%
"You ask if you shall send me books. My dear friend, I beseech you, for the love of God, relieve me from such a yoke! I need no more to be guided, agitated, heated. My heart ferments sufficiently of itself. I want strains to lull me, and I find them to perfection in Homer."
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59
May 22, 2020
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50.0%
"Persons who can claim a certain rank keep themselves coldly all of from the common people, as though they feared to lose their importance by the contact; whilst wanton idlers, and such as are prone to bad joking, affect to descend to their level, only to make the poor people feel their impertinence all the more keenly."
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59
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
"All learned professors and doctors are agreed that children do not comprehend the cause of their desires; but that the grown-up should wander about this earth like children, without knowing whence they come, or wither they go, influenced as little by fixed motives, but guided like them by biscuits, sugar-plums, and the rod, --this is what nobody is willing to acknowledge; and yet I think it is palpable."
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105
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
"What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words.... Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?"
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105
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
".. for, when she expressed so truly her opinion of "The Vicar of Wakefield" and of other works, the names of which I omit..."
page
105
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
"I have often, my dear Wilhelm, reflected on the eagerness men feel to wander and make new discoveries, and spin that secrets impulse which afterward inclines them to return to their narrow circle, conform to the laws of custom, and embarrass themselves no longer with what passes around them."
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105
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
"1/2
Distance, my friend, is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls: the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision; and we desire earnestly to surrender up our whole bing, that i may be filled with the complete and perfect bliss of one glorious emotion."
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105
Distance, my friend, is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls: the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision; and we desire earnestly to surrender up our whole bing, that i may be filled with the complete and perfect bliss of one glorious emotion."
May 22, 2020
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88.98%
"2/2
But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant there becomes the present here, all is changed: we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."
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105
But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant there becomes the present here, all is changed: we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."
May 23, 2020
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88.98%
"Happy is it for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with eight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth."
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105
December 31, 2020
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Finished Reading
April 6, 2025
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rereads
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