We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrevocably for ourselves and for others.


Elective Affinities (1809)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most...