Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.
(Speech in Philadelphia - The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern world, 1994)

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All human suffering concerns each human being.

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We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

Václav Havel (New Year Address in Prague, 1990)

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

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