# Quote — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

> I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

- Author: [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe.md)
- Book: [The Sorrows of Young Werther](https://www.leafyquotes.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther.md)
- Original (de): Ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.
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> I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.

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> If only, dear friend, these precious treasures, beautiful and priceless as they are, were not so fragile too.

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