"Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're……" — Gao Xingjian

"Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self."

— Gao Xingjian

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21 Quotes by Gao Xingjian

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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned.…
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the…
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the…

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