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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Gao Xingjian
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Gao Xingjian
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 4
Film Director
Literary Critic
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Painter
Playwright
Translator
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Xingjian Gao
Hành Kiện Cao
Hsing-chien Kao
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