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Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
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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