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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Playwright and president · 1936 – 2011
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright and dissident who became the first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia and then of the Czech Republic. His essays, especially The Power of the Powerless, articulated the moral resistance of living in truth under totalitarianism.
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