Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel
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- It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
- The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
- If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
- What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
- The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.