Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — a remark

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“Voluntary dependence is the most beautiful condition, and how could it be possible without love.”

Original: Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe. — Goethe presents freely chosen attachment as a paradoxical form of freedom grounded in love. · The Elective Affinities (German)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28 August 1749–22 March 1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main and dead 22 March 1832 in Weimar, became during his own lifetime a European institution: poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, civil servant, theater director, scientific investigator, memoirist, and theorist of culture. To call him Germany’s greatest…

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