One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Liu Xia is a Chinese painter, poet, and photographer who resides in Beijing, China. She was the wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo before his death.
