That being, for those of us too gauche to have read Faust in the original?
Ein Teil von jener Kraft,
Die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.
Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint!
Part of that power which would
Do evil constantly and constantly does good.
I am the spirit of perpetual negation
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