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" I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust, First Part


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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote : I am the spirit that negates.<br />And rightly so, for all that comes to be<br />Deserves to perish wretchedly;<br />'Twere better nothing would begin.<br />Thus everything that that your terms, sin,<br />Destruction, evil represent—<br />That is my proper element.