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