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| Vaclav Havel
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. 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. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? |
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