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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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Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
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Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.
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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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Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
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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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To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.
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Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
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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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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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I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
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Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
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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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Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
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Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
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