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Night is on earth. While in high heavens the suns and stars chant the clear glory of divine creation, the human earth has to cope with darkness. Rising toward the straight, unbearable light, man must avert his face, look at the misty rainbow of illusions, burrow in hidden holes, wait through the short turn of his hours. Then night again envelops his view. Perhaps it lulls him into dreamy rest, perhaps it haunts him in unknowable dread, perhaps it stirs him to search for some light. Not the surpassing fullness of a sun: a human dimness for a waking home.
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© 1963 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Adamczewski, Z. (1963). The Tragic Striving — Faust. In: The Tragic Protest. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9556-0_5
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