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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.

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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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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

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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.

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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

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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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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Leader

Born: October 5th, 1936

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