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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.
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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