“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

— Václav Havel, book Disturbing the Peace

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5

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playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of … 1936–2011

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