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📚 Faust, First Part by Goethe - 20/24 Book (2026)
This is what I call another absolute "cinema" in literature. It counts that way only when you read and so immersed in the process that you forget the outside world exists. Must-read. I haven't even started the 2nd book (2nd part) yet here I am seeing the genius of Goethe. This was ahead of its time, the lessons, morale still hold truth from the several books I've read that were published centuries later.
"O happy he, who still renews
The hope, from Error's deeps to rise forever!
That which one does not know, one needs to use;
And what one knows, one uses never."
Read those lines again. Life forces you to act on incomplete knowledge, what matters here the most is checking the output and refining your next action super fast. Everything is built around it, you act then fail, you learn from that failure and act again.
"The fairest stars from Heaven he requireth,
From Earth the highest raptures and the best,
And all the Near and Far that he desireth
Fails to subdue the tumult of his breast."
Greed (mostly) and any human wanting in general (or state) never ends, once you satisfy one's desire it instantly births the next one. Be it joy or melancholy, status or peace in simplicity, knowledge or bliss in ignorance, you will never say "This is it, I achieved this or that and it is going to last forever". Exactly what Mephistopheles tried to prove wrong about human nature in Part 1. I can go on and on forever here and I wish I could but I can't spoil too much and ruin the experience for some. The tragedy in the ending tho... the fact that it was based on what Goethe saw in his own life... Period.
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