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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther Quotes: 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.


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



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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.



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



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



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



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





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