As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of… — Václav Havel
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.
We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.
