“The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.”

—  Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein

Act III, sc. viii
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

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