“My dear friends, I bid you farewell as your President. I remain with you as your fellow citizen!”

— Václav Havel

Farewell Address (2003)

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

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“My dear friends, I bid you farewell as your President. I remain with you as your fellow citizen!”

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