Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
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Nationality: Czechoslovakian Type: Leader Born: October 5, 1936 |
Having caught a glimpse of what I might be able to do with my talent, I feel a tremendous obligation to try to fulfill it.
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.