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📜 DYK: Goethe’s Faust Took Over 60 Years to Complete

📜 DYK: Goethe’s Faust Took Over 60 Years to Complete

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Did you know that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe worked on his masterpiece Faust for more than six decades?
He began writing the first draft in his early twenties and only finished Part Two shortly before his death at 82.

Faust isn’t just a story of a man selling his soul to the devil—it’s a sweeping philosophical drama about knowledge, desire, temptation, an…

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