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Vaclav Havel

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Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
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Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have. By disrupting that order. A way of surprising.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have. By disrupting that order. A way of surprising.
I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It’s just that it’s incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
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Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It’s just that it’s incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
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Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren’t in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them – isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them – isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in “systems” cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in “systems” cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one’s own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one’s own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?
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