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Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Czech dissident, dramatist, & politician (1936 - )

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Machado de Assis 2014

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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against a meaningful background. It is the deeper meaning that is shedding light on the absurdity. There must be a vanish point, a metaphysical horizon if you will where absurdity and meaning merge.”
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.”
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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.
The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Czech Man : Vaclav Havel (1992) - the fifth estate
Václav Havel: Disident, který se dostal z vězení až na Hrad
"The Power of the Powerless" - Vaclav Havel (from Livestream #35)
Vaclav Havel On NATO Expansion
Speech by Vaclav Havel on European identity | European Parliament
President Havel's Speech at the U S Congress in 1990 Projev prezidenta Havla v Kongresu
Václav Havel: New Year's Address to the Nation 1990 / Novoroční projev 1990 (English subtitles)
Raw Video: World Leaders Remember Vaclav Havel
Vor 20 Jahren: Václav Havel spricht im Deutschen Bundestag
The Czech Republic: Vaclav Havel | European Journal
UK: LONDON: CZECH PRESIDENT HAVEL MEETS THE QUEEN
Vaclav Havel an amazing human rights leader
Václav Havel naposledy propuštěn z vězení
Václav Havel - Život podle Václava Havla
Václav Havel o Václavu Klausovi a Češích (1994)
Tschechien: Der erste Film von Vaclav Havel | Europa Aktuell
Václav Havel
Vaclav Havel under constant surveilance by communist police
Czech leader Vaclav Havel dies
Václav Havel - Pane prezidente ( Jarek Nohavica )
Vaclav Havel | Freedom Collection
Vaclav Havel et la Révolution de Velours
Miloš Zeman Václav Havel sestavení vlády 1996 prostě někdo má a někdo nemá
Asi to dopadne špatně, říká Václav Havel
Václav Havel - Rudolfinum 9.12.1997 (tzv. Rudolfinský projev)
Václav Havel a Bill Clinton v Redutě (1994)
USA: CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL MEETS PRESIDENT CLINTON
Václav Havel: Ukrajina v Evropě a ve světě (21. 2. 2004)
Madeleine Albright on Vaclav Havel's 'Massive Moral Authority, Great Courage'
Living in Truth: Václav Havel’s Power of the Powerless
Frost over the world - Vaclav Havel - 26 Sep 08
Václav Havel: Svoboda a její nepřátelé
USA: WASHINGTON: CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL VISIT
VÁCLAV HAVEL o amnestii, omluvě Němcům a "humanitárním bombardování", 2005
Michael Jackson meets Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel sa opäť oženil (1997)
Václav Havel: Chyba
🔴 LIVE: Planespotting at Prague Vaclav Havel Airport, Prague | 24/7 LIVE
Greeting from Vaclav Havel
Tady Havel, slyšíte mě? (2023) CZ HD Teaser #ChybiteNam
Odchazeni - Vaclav Havel
Státní pohřeb Václava Havla - Kde domov můj - State funeral Vaclav Havel - Where Is My Home
Vaclav Havel: Intimidating Dissidents
Trauerzug durch Prag für Václav Havel
Czech Republic - The Pope Meets Vaclav havel
Arrival at Vaclav Havel International Airport 3/13/2024
World mourns Vaclav Havel
The Velvet Revolution - 2005 (Dir. Fern Levitt)
VÁCLAV HAVEL - o životě, disentu a ženách, rozhovor na Hrádečku 2005
Václav Havel o životě v socialismu

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