“To have your every wish, desire, Wake, regard the glorious light! What holds you bound is a mild power, Sleep’s a shell, break out of it! Up, no lagging, boldly does it; Though the crowd doubts and delays, All’s possible to a brave spirit 4830 Who sees, and seeing’s quick to seize.”
― Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
― Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two
“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Runaway Horses
― Runaway Horses
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is another name for vanity. It is the effort of human beings not to be human beings.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
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