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Lying can never save us from another lie.

~Vaclav Havel

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

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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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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

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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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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Leader

Born: October 5th, 1936

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