Quote by Vaclav Havel
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the c

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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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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Absurdity
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel

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Experience
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I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked – and I hope to meet a few more. – Sienna Miller

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My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. – Thomas Arnold

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Hope

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp. – Nancy Reagan

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett

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Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

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