At the Petrin telegraph station, religion broke out like an epidemic. For no earthly reason, all the telegraph operators on duty were sending out ecs… - Karel Čapek

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At the Petrin telegraph station, religion broke out like an epidemic. For no earthly reason, all the telegraph operators on duty were sending out ecstatic messages to the whole world, a sort of new gospel saying that God is coming back down to earth to redeem it ...

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About Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.

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Alternative Names: Karel Capek
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Nu už je to venku, řekl jsem si, pravda je zachráněna. Ale hergot, copak je tohle celá pravda? Vždyť všechna tahle odhalení a zklamání, ty trpké pravdy, deziluze a hořké zkušenosti, to je jen ždibec pravdy; celá pravda je větší, celá pravda je, že velká a bláznivá věc je láska, pýcha, vášeň a ctižádost, že každá oběť je hrdinská a že lidský tvor ve vé lásce je něco krásného a úžasného. To je druhá a ta velká půlka pravdy; ale to by člověk musel být básník, aby to dovedl vidět a říci,

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