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Where fantasy condemns itself to dwell / In agony

The time has come to prove by deeds that mortals
Have as much dignity as any god,
And not to tremble at that murky cave
Where fantasy condemns itself to dwell
In agony.

— Goethe, Faust
tr. Walter Kaufmann

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