“I am the Spirit that always denies!”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , book Faust

Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
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Faust, Part 1 (1808)

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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.

Faust, Part 1 (1808)

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