Václav Havel Library

The Václav Havel Library aims to:

• Assemble the complete works of Václav Havel and everything related to his public activities
• Make these materials accessible to the public
• Create a permanent exhibition about the life and work of Václav Havel and his efforts in the struggle for freedom and democracy
• Support and organize archiving, research, educational and publishing activities together with public discussion and debates

Further information

• Who are we? – Establishment and Mission
  • Founders
  • Board of Trustees
  • Friends of the Václav Havel Library
• Library Team

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Diary entry for 5. December 2005, To the Castle and Back

„In short, Being has a memory. And thus even my insignificance – as a bourgeois child, a laboratory assistant, a soldier, a stagehand, a playwright, a dissident, a prisoner, a president, a pensioner, a public phenomenon, and a hermit, an alleged hero but secretly a bundle of nerves – will remain here for ever, or rather not here, but somewhere. But not, however, elsewhere. Somewhere here.“

Václav Havel:
Diary entry for 5. December 2005, To the Castle and Back
2006