"...to give some credit to my bourgeois origins, which all my life have brought me nothing but complications...even when - paradoxically - I was in a state of vehement inner revolt against everything bourgeois around me, I cannot rule out the fact that my own 'relentlessness,' my 'indestructability,' my unsinkable (because anti-illusionary) faith that things have a meaning, and finally my special ability to extricate myself, somehow, from hopeless situations (and even to profit from them) are related to that traditional quality of middle-classness (particularly in the era of liberalism), which is the ability to take risks, the courage to start all over again from nothing, the ever vital hope and élan to begin new enterprises."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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