Gao Xingjian Quotes
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Gao Xingjian Quotes & Sayings
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When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.
— Gao Xingjian
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
— Gao Xingjian
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
— Gao Xingjian
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
— Gao Xingjian
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
— Gao Xingjian
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
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
— Gao Xingjian
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
— Gao Xingjian
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
— Gao Xingjian
Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
— Gao Xingjian
A good man never fights with a woman.
— Gao Xingjian
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
— Gao Xingjian
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
— Gao Xingjian
Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
— Gao Xingjian
Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
— Gao Xingjian
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
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
Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.
— Gao Xingjian
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
— Gao Xingjian
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
— Gao Xingjian
You're safe only when you can't see anybody.
— Gao Xingjian