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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Werther, man, you had it bad. Someone should have come to Wahlheim to rescue you. You can't see the forest through the trees and you can't see all the possibilities life holds for you when you're hanging out in the town of a married woman whom you're in love and can never be with. Poor kid.
This book had some remarkably relevant quotes (for being first published in 1774). Some of my favorites:
This book had some remarkably relevant quotes (for being first published in 1774). Some of my favorites:
“The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!”
“[I]n this world no one easily understands another.”
“What I regret is that he often speaks of matters he has only heard or read about and always from the point of view that someone has presented to him.”