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title: "The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther"
author: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
translator: "R. D. Boylan"
title_de: "Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther"
languages: [de, en]
shelf: "Literature"
section: 62 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/62/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 62. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/62/"
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# The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan*

German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther

A young man falls in love with Lotte, who is promised to another, and writes it all to a friend: the letters that made Goethe famous and all Europe weep, in German and English.

> German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Hamburger Ausgabe, Band 6 (Project Gutenberg #2407 and #2408, prepared by Michael Pullen, proofread by Dr. Mary Cicora).

> English: The Sorrows of Young Werther, translated by R. D. Boylan, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole (Project Gutenberg #2527). The translator’s preface has no German counterpart in this edition.

## 62. Book II · September 3

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/62/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/62/#p-N

[¶0] September 3

> German: Am 3. September

[¶1] I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.

> German: Ich begreife manchmal nicht, wie sie ein anderer lieb haben kann, lieb haben darf, da ich sie so ganz allein, so innig, so voll liebe, nichts anders kenne, noch weiß, noch habe als sie!