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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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#around #avoid #beyond #descend #get

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#feeling #hope #life #meaning #regardless

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#basic #constant #entropy #ever #highly

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

#bothers #him #his #knows #less

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#i #i think #should #somewhat #suspect

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#also #experience #first #human #human nature

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

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

— Vaclav Havel

#always #intellectual #side #something #suspect

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#change #come #continue #cuba #definitely