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Vaclav Havel
Modern man must...
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is...
Hope is a...
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the...
A human action...
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the...
Drama assumes an...
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of...
Anyone who takes...
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh...
The clich? organizes...
The clich? organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the...
As soon as...
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything,...
The truth is...
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and...
The role of...
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to...
There's always something...
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Source:...
The exercise of...
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the...
The salvation of...
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human...
There is only...
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and...
Even a purely...
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly,...
If you want...
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.