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" This greater life, this godlike bliss!
You, but a worm, have you earned this?
Choosing to turn your back, ah yes,
On all Earth’s lovely Sun might promise!
Let me dare to throw those gates open,
That other men go creeping by!

Now’s the time, to prove through action
Man’s dignity may rise divinely high,
Never trembling at that void where,
Imagination damns itself to pain

Striving towards the passage there
Round whose mouth all Hell’s fires flame;
Choose to take that step, happy to go
Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow... "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust


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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote : This greater life, this godlike bliss!<br />You, but a worm, have you earned this?<br />Choosing to turn your back, ah yes,<br />On all Earth’s lovely Sun might promise!<br />Let me dare to throw those gates open, <br />That other men go creeping by!<br /><br />Now’s the time, to prove through action<br />Man’s dignity may rise divinely high,<br />Never trembling at that void where,<br />Imagination damns itself to pain <br /><br />Striving towards the passage there<br />Round whose mouth all Hell’s fires flame;<br />Choose to take that step, happy to go<br />Where danger lies, where Nothingness may flow...