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"Faust is just the avoidant introvert that wants to stay home and Mephistopheles is the master of side-quests that drags him along for shenanigans." — Mar 22, 2026 08:35AM
"Faust is just the avoidant introvert that wants to stay home and Mephistopheles is the master of side-quests that drags him along for shenanigans." — Mar 22, 2026 08:35AM
“Some alien substance more and more is cleaving
To all the mind conceives of grand and fair;
When this world's Good is won by our achieving,
The Better, then, is named a cheat and snare”
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To all the mind conceives of grand and fair;
When this world's Good is won by our achieving,
The Better, then, is named a cheat and snare”
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“Unharmed with naked feet she trod
Upon the hot and burning stars”
― Longfellow's Complete Poems: Illustrated
Upon the hot and burning stars”
― Longfellow's Complete Poems: Illustrated
“And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships”
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A stormy sunset on doomed ships”
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“There is no useful virtue which has not some alloy of vice, and hardly any vice, if any, which carries not with it a little dash of virtue; virtue and vice are like life and death, or mind and matter--things which cannot exist without being qualified by their opposite.”
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“That is the danger of having principles. In politics, principle is like a sword aimed at the heart. Far better, one might be forgiven for thinking, for a lord to have no principles than to risk that he might fall on that sword. The principled man simply has more to lose. It is what makes them such fabulous villains.”
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