A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the… — Václav Havel
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
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