632 – “A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”

–Václav Havel

Quote Number:  538

Source: Havel, Václav; Paul Wilson, Translator. Disturbing the Peace : A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala. 1990. Pg 113.

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