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Gao Xingjian
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Gao Xingjian
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 4
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Xingjian Gao
Hành Kiện Cao
Hsing-chien Kao
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In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
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Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
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Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
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Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
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Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
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There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
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Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.
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Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
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Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
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When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
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The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.
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Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
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I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
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