Well, it mustn’t be Goethe’s inlfuence. Faust is from German folklore and is based on the historical Dr. Johann Georg Faust, an alchemist who accidental blowed himself up in c. 1540.
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“There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.”
— from the Neverending Story by Michael Ende