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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in systems cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.
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