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“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and…

— Robert Aickman

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…

— Anonymous

“The Poodle The poodle -- nature’s most perfect food -- was invented by Otto Van Plotsberg in 1872. According to Van Plotsberg he had…

— Elyse Friedman

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Christopher Marlowe

“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national…

— William Somerset Maugham

“However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at…

— J.G. Ballard

“because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,…

— Jack Kerouac

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept…

— Agatha Christie

“Thanks to Mr. Grose's Lexicon Balatronicum, Olympia knew a buffer nabber was a dog stealer.”

— Loretta Chase

“Suddenly, the giant, three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld appears next to her—sans two of its heads—and sits down. As a…

— Elle Lothlorien