Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · The source reads: “To-day I shall see her ... I shall see her, and I have no other wish to form for the whole day: all, all is included in that thought.” · Werther on waking with the thought of Charlotte, in the letter of July 19 in The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · The source reads: “Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!” · From his fairy tale of the green snake and the beautiful lily; Carlyle's 1832 version reads "Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Manto the sibyl to Faust, who wants Helen of Troy back from the dead.
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