Vaclav Havel:

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

— Vaclav Havel Contemporary

Czech president, playwright

From his essay 'Disturbing the Peace' and often quoted in speeches.

1986

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