2 Quotes by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She oughtnot to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenlyinnocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers,in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life!

Yesterday, when I took leave she seized me by the hand, andsaid, “Adieu, dear Werther.” Dear Werther! It was the firsttime she ever called me dear: the sound sunk deep into myheart. I have repeated it a hundred times; and last night, ongoing to bed, and talking to myself of various things, I suddenlysaid, “Good night, dear Werther!” and then could notbut laugh at myself.