Quote by Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the low

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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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 a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. – Vaclav Havel

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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you dont, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. – Vaclav Havel

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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. – Albert Camus

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