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Gao Xingjian Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Gao Xingjian quotes: When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

Gao Xingjian quotes: You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

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

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

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

Gao Xingjian quotes: 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.

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.

Gao Xingjian quotes: I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

You've lived in the city for a long time and need to feel that you have a hometown.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

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

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Gao Xingjian quotes: In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.

In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

Gao Xingjian quotes: A good man never fights with a woman.

A good man never fights with a woman.

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.

When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

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

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 quotes: What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Gao Xingjian quotes: Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

Gao Xingjian quotes: he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

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

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

Gao Xingjian quotes: You're safe only when you can't see anybody.

You're safe only when you can't see anybody.