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If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
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You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
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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.
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It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then put it into practice, but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the material of the world, articulate it in the language of the world.
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
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To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.
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