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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.


Oscar Wilde


#gothic-horror-fiction #hedonism #temptation

Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself...


C.N. Faust


#fantasy #faust #gay #horror #humor

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#faust #faust-legend #faustian #faustus #hell

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!


E.A. Bucchianeri


#goethe #history #history-of-mankind #history-repeating-itself #human-nature

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#goethe #mephistopheles #life

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#consequences #evil #evil-men #faust #faust-legend

Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#classics #drama #faust #faust-legend #faustian

Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its inherent opportunity to choose virtue and reject iniquity. “What shall a man gain if he has the whole world and lose his soul,” (Matt. 16: v. 26) - but for a notorious name, the ethereal shadow of a career, and a brief life of fleeting pleasure with no true peace? This was the blackest and most captivating tragedy of all, few could have remained indifferent to the growing intrigue of this individual who apparently shook hands with the devil and freely chose to descend to the molten, sulphuric chasm of Hell for all eternity for so little in exchange. It is a drama that continues to fascinate today as powerfully as when Faustus first disseminated his infamous card in the Heidelberg locale to the scandal of his generation. In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#evil #evil-men #faust #faust-legend #faustian

Oh my God, but art is long / and our life is fleeting.


ghadirian


#goethe #art

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?


Christopher Marlowe


#faustus #tragedy #art






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