"Doctor Faustus" Quotes
A gifted musician's gradual descent into moral decay and self-destruction after making a pact with the devil.
fiction | Published in 1999
Quotes
One can be a great artist without being a great man.
artgreatnesscharacter
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
talentgenius
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
lovedeathreason
In order to write great music, one must have a great suffering.
musicsuffering
For knowledge is the source of life to the mind.
knowledgelifemind
The striving for greatness is the striving of the soul to be itself.
greatnesssoulstriving
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
musiclife
Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains.
geniuspersistence
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men.
lifeperception
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
educationatoning
