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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother.”
Faust, Part One, Scene II, Before the City-Gate (German l. 1112), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
On the Easter walk Faust explains to Wagner his divided longing for the earth and for the heights.
Citation: "Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene II, Before the City-Gate (German l. 1112), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q4)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
