Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 11:50AM
Drew Wolfe

Gao Xingjian

You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.

Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

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


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