Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me. - Ba Jin
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
- Ba Jin
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. - Ba Jin
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly. - Ba Jin
I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer. - Ba Jin
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. - Ba Jin
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing. - Ba Jin
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me. - Ba Jin
You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace. - Ba Jin
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. - Ba Jin
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
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