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Vaclav Havel - From the Accomplishment category:
If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Artists category:
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Deception category:
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Earth category:
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Emotion category:
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Hope category:
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Hope category:
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Hope category:
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Humour category:
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Importance category:
I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Meaning category:
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Modernism category:
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Politics category:
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Potential category:
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Power category:
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Questions category:
Theater is there to search for questions. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Struggle category:
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Vision category:
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. (Vaclav Havel)
Vaclav Havel - From the Work category:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. (Vaclav Havel)
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