You know what that means.

When I mention my name, I mention all; and you know that, as long as I have known you, I have lived only as part of you."[58] So closed a relation of which it is difficult to say how much there was in it of genuine passion, how much of artificial sentiment.

Serious intention in it there was none; from the first Goethe perfectly realised the fact that he could never make Kaethchen his wife.[59] [Footnote 57: _Ib._ p.

211.] [Footnote 58: _Ib._ p.

224.] [Footnote 59: Goethe saw Kaethchen as a married woman in Leipzig in 1776, when he wrote to the lady who then held his affections (Frau von Stein): "Mais ce n'est plus Julie."] As at Leipzig, his other distractions did not divert him from his interests in art and literature.