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- "A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted ..."
- "Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who ..."
- "As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the ..."
- "Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that ..."
- "Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political ..."
- "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and ..."
- "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that ..."
- "I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire ..."
- "I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. "
- "If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now ..."
- "If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. "
- "Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps ..."
- "Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so ..."
- "Lying can never save us from another lie. "
- "Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only ..."
- "None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, ..."
- "People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of ..."
- "Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. "
- "The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, ..."
- "The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity ..."
- "The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the ..."
- "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in ..."
- "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the ..."
- "There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust ..."
- "There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. "
- "True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you ..."
- "Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without ..."
