“I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.”

— Karel Čapek

Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

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Czech writer 1890–1938

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