July 13.

Name: The Sorrows of Young Werther - July 13.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No, I am not deceived. In her dark eyes I read a genuine interest in me and in my fortunes. Yes, I feel it; and I may believe my own heart which tells me — dare I say it? — dare I pronounce the divine words? — that she loves me!

That she loves me! How the idea exalts me in my own eyes! And, as you can understand my feelings, I may say to you, how I honour myself since she loves me!

Is this presumption, or is it a consciousness of the truth? I do not know a man able to supplant me in the heart of Charlotte; and yet when she speaks of her betrothed with so much warmth and affection, I feel like the soldier who has been stripped of his honours and titles, and deprived of his sword.

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Chicago: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "July 13.," The Sorrows of Young Werther, ed. Nathen Haskell Dole and trans. Boylan, R. Dillon, and Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 in The Sorrows of Young Werther (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921), Original Sources, accessed July 18, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJWU3N5VG55JIYH.

MLA: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. "July 13." The Sorrows of Young Werther, edited by Nathen Haskell Dole, and translated by Boylan, R. Dillon, and Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881, in The Sorrows of Young Werther, New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1921, Original Sources. 18 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJWU3N5VG55JIYH.

Harvard: Goethe, JW, 'July 13.' in The Sorrows of Young Werther, ed. and trans. . cited in 1921, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Henry Holt and Company, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LJWU3N5VG55JIYH.