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496 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1808












`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:In Faust, the name of the game is passion. Passion for learning, passion for love, passion for life in all its forms and facets. The deprivation of passion by the slow grind of facts and figures and hypocrisy, the boons of inheritance providing shortcuts without granting the necessary experience of true effort, and excess. When the world is at one's feet, what is there left for passion to strive for?
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ozymandias'
Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,
Den können wir erlösen.
("Who ever strives with all his power,
We are allowed to save.")
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust