Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.