If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.
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
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
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life. - Gao Xingjian
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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
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…
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. - Gao Xingjian
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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
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…
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
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagn…
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone. - Gao Xingjian
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.
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
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.
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self. - Gao Xingjian
Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.
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