Fausto: Primera Parte
1808
Fausto: Primera Parte
1808
Translated by Teodoro Llorente
A brilliant scholar stands at the edge of despair. Dr. Faust has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, only to realize he understands nothing of genuine importance. The weight of accumulated knowledge has led him not to wisdom but to spiritual emptiness. In his darkest hour, he summons a demon, and Mephistopheles appears with a devil's bargain: all knowledge and experience in exchange for his soul. What follows is one of literature's most terrifying explorations of what humanity will risk to escape the prison of its own limitations. Goethe's masterpiece pulses with the restless energy of a world undergoing seismic change, where Enlightenment rationalism has delivered everything except the one thing that matters. The poetry crackles with longing, irony, and a dark romantic humor that makes the tragedy feel terrifyingly alive. This is a book about the danger of wanting too much, and the even greater danger of wanting nothing at all.
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“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever is the lot of humankindI want to taste within my deepest self.I want to seize the highest and the lowest,to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,and thus expand my single self titanicallyand in the end go down with all the rest.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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