Gao Xingjian Quotes

Gao Xingjian — Chinese Novelist born on January 04, 1940,

Gao Xingjian is a Chineseémigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.” He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship... (wikipedia)

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

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

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

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

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

Gao Xingjian Quotes

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