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Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.
Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
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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 how it is said.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.
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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.
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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.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.
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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
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The cliché organizes life it expropriates people's identity it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
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Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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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.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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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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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
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