Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Various political parties, even if they're in direct opposition with one another, still say they are the spokesperson for the people. The… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I first heard that I had won the prize, I thought that it was something for myself, that it was something… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Yours is much worse than Eastern! You’ve slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
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