Vaclav Havel

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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