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Václav Havel

President of Czechoslovakia 1989–1992; President of the Czech Republic 1993–2003; playwright and dissident

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic · 1936–2011

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Playwright and dissident who was imprisoned several times under the Communist government of Czechoslovakia, including a four-year term from 1979. A founding signatory of Charter 77. Served as the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic.

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Question When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? Daily life read 22 other answers →

The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don't.

Recorded Karel Hvížďala, Interviews conducted 1985–1986, published in English 1990, Václav Havel Library Foundation (havelcenter.org), 1986 source ↗

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