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«Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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«When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.»
«Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.»
«There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.»
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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began, Considering, dimension, Lose Control, The Source
«The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.»
«The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.»
«You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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Branded, cast out, combined, dissident, sense of responsibility
«If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.»
«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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