Who is Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] (listen); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003 and was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background, when freedoms were limited by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as The Garden Party and The Memorandum, Havel used an...Read Full Biography of Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel Quotes
- It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
- The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
- 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.
- What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
- The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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Charles42644711: hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.,václav havel,life,Rhornik: a little late this week “hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. it is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” ― václav havel
Paulconro: me on václav havel airport in prague, czech republic is a schengen country. they let me pass without asking me to enter the security filter at landing. what at does should be reported to eu commision as it'sa case of staggering discrimination.
Anthgarrett: "hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. it is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." —vaclav havel
Hrconfes: "work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed" -- vaclav havel
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