4 Vaclav Havel Quotes on Purpose

Vaclav Havel quotes on purpose

35. The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.

38. A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

39. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

45. Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?