"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.“

-Vaclav Havel

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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

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"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."

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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

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"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."

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"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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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

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