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3 lessons from reading Goethe's Faust

in 571 words.

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Tommy Dixon
Apr 30, 2025
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Faust in his Study (Ary Scheffer, 1840)

1- Reading will never be enough. No amount of knowledge will ever fill the deep recesses in my heart.

Faust spent his life locked in his study in the quest for knowledge, only to find himself empty and utterly unsatisfied. He didn’t grow until he put his books aside and plunged into the messy, joyful, and tragic rea…

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