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Quotation from Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He only earns his freedom and existence”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (spoken by Faust)

Faust, Part Two, Act V, Great Outer Court of the Palace, trans. Bayard Taylor (1871)

From Faust's last speech, in which, blind, he imagines his reclaimed land peopled by free and active men.

Citation: "He only earns his freedom and existence" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two, Act V, Great Outer Court of the Palace, trans. Bayard Taylor (1871). (id goethe-faust-part-two-q1)

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