“What else but a profound feeling of being excluded can enable a person better to see the absurdity of the world and his own existence, or, to put it more soberly, the absurd dimensions of the world and his own existence?”
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
“الحرية الروحية، و هي التي لا يمكن سلبها من الإنسان، و هي التي تجعل الحياة ذات معنى و ذات هدف”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“يحصل المرء على أول انطباع عن حاكم وعقله حين يري الرجال الذين حوله.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
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