Men always look differently
Men always look differently at women, even if it’s not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such. Gao Xingjian
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Men always look differently at women, even if it’s not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such. Gao Xingjian
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. Gao Xingjian
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without isms, is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on … Read more
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality. Gao Xingjian
If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It’s only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning. 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
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? Gao Xingjian
If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life. Gao Xingjian
If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of your bones. You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it. You will know it as that which has eternally been here. And … Read more
What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known … what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears. Gangaji