October 26, 2010

Waking or asleep, she fills all my thoughts!

How her image haunts me! Waking or asleep, she fills all my thoughts! When I close my eyes, here, in my brain, where all the energies of inward vision are concentrated, are her black eyes. Here--I cannot express it; but if I shut my eyes, there are hers: dark as the ocean, as an abyss they lie before me, and fill the nerves of my brain.

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, December 6, Book II

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