What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing b…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.54, e-artnow
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel, p.54, e-artnow

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