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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

Topics: Fiction Found Life Literature Mask Tell True Truth You

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

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Anything Because Compromise Concession Life Now Only Want Without You

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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Anxious Confusing Define Holy How Love Love Is Makes Man Tormented

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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Able Alive Existence Keep Mind My Own Own Use Way Words Writing You Your

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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Humans Literature Observing Oneself Point Starting Starting Point Yields

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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Always Male Many Men Mystery Possible Present Pursue Tried Views Women Women Are World Worlds Writer

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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 achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Achieved Authors Continue Could Enduring Great Had History How Lifetimes Literature Many Published The History Of Were Which While Works Write Writing

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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Hero Just Myself Save Society Strong Want Who

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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

~Gao Xingjian

Topics: Any Blind Crushes Experience Grouping Individual Kind Mass Me Oppressive Political Taught

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Novelist

Born: January 4th, 1940

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