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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Isnt it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. – Vaclav Havel

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

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Sometimes I wonder if suicides arent in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. – Vaclav Havel

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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl S. Buck

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I think I jump around more when Im alone. – Nicolas Cage

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The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone – and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone – at night. Thats the nucleus of the first story in my collection and its also where the title came from for the book. – Paul Kane

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