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literary character who sells his soul to the devil in order to become all-knowing, or godlike

He was where Goethe was when he began "Faust"; he was where Conrad was when he wrote "Almayer's Folly."
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

It was an intermezzo, a vocal solo, a "prayer" from Gounod's opera about Faust.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Mephistopheles declared to Faust that he desired evil, but did only good.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
This thought pervades all German literature and is mystically expressed in Goethe's "Faust": All things transitory But as symbols are sent.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
The colossal drama "Faust" is the most splendid product of his genius, though he wrote a large number of other plays and poems.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Something very similar to Faust's cell presented itself to Jehan's view, when he ventured his head through the halfopen door.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
' " They played potsy, humming "The Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust which they called "Glory.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
He believes, like Faust, that two souls are far too many for a single breast and must tear the breast asunder.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
The thing had happened in M. Debienne and M. Poligny's time, also in Box Five and also during a performance of FAUST.
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
The first one, Faust the Dog, was written by a man named Mattheus Ottleberg.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
"Keep this colt right up with Faust as close as you can," he later recalled telling the jockey.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
Margaret disliked "Tosca" and "Faust."
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
I understood why this stuff is so deadly, so insufferably false, even in Faust.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Her soul cried out in the words of Faust, "Stay, thou art fair!"
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
From somewhere in the house, Grandma Faust said something I couldn't make out, probably "Don't let them in!"
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
THE LORD Know'st Faust?
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
Hurstwood found that he could not talk, repressed as he was, and grudging Drouet every moment of his presence, he bowed himself out with the elegance of a Faust.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie

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