Ba Jin quotes
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“My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.”
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“I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Ba Jin". Obituary in "The Times", October 25, 2005.
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“Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.
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“I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.”
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“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
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“I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Literary witness to century of turmoil". www.chinadaily.com.cn. November 24, 2003.
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“I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.
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“Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.”
-- Ba JinSource : "The Cold Nights". Book by Ba Jin, 1947.
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“Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Living legend: Ba Jin". "News Guangdong", November 26, 2003.
#Attitude Quotes #Judging Quotes #Be True To Yourself Quotes
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“Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.
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“Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.
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“You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.”
-- Ba JinSource : "Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.
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