Gao Xingjian Short Quotes

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The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

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Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

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

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

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

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Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

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

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

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

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Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

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

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

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

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She says she doesn't know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can't.

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Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

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

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

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Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

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