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Gao Xingjian Quotes

Chinese - Novelist | January 4, 1940 -

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

Life Truth Mask Literature You True

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

Love Man Love Is Define Holy How

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

Relationship Yourself Eye Self You

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

Words Mind Writing You Alive Way

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

Literature Starting Point Observing

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.

Women Men World Present Mystery

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?

History Great Writing Literature How

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

Myself Hero Society Strong Want Who

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

Experience Me Blind Political Kind

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

Life Compromise You Now Want Only

Literature is higher than politics, if not actually above politics.

Politics Literature Above Higher

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

Work Looking Think Political Worth

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