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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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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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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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Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
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I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.
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Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
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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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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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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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You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.
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Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.
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Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
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Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.
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Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
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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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When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.
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Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
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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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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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