It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

- Gao Xingjian

Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no rewa…

- Gao Xingjian

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 ach…

- Gao Xingjian

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagn…

- Gao Xingjian

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

- Gao Xingjian

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

- Gao Xingjian

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

- Gao Xingjian

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

- Gao Xingjian

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

- Gao Xingjian