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Quote by Vaclav Havel
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most decept

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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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

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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. – Vaclav Havel

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Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. Its a cacophony, its like a madness I think thats been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. – Martin Scorsese

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Health consists with temperance alone. – Alexander Pope

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We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. – Simone Weil

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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. – William Tyndale

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