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Václav Havel1936–2011

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.

Václav Havel on hope

Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5: The Politics of Hope

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