A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth. Gao Xingjian More Quotes by Gao Xingjian More Quotes From Gao Xingjian Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian making-love poetry writing Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature. Gao Xingjian lunatic art thinking Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. Gao Xingjian personal-experiences Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas. Gao Xingjian aspiration produce ideas Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person. Gao Xingjian instant perception reality Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom. Gao Xingjian inner-peace soul men Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such. Gao Xingjian intention men looks You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures. Gao Xingjian filters trying memories Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural. Gao Xingjian struggle life-is natural Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell. Gao Xingjian scent smell body They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack. Gao Xingjian instant dream Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man. Gao Xingjian intelligent baby men Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market. Gao Xingjian subservient refuse truth 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 tragedy hero people You're safe only when you can't see anybody. Gao Xingjian safe Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living. Gao Xingjian adversity problem reason 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. Gao Xingjian males women views In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness. Gao Xingjian mad self order I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. Gao Xingjian want writing profound The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. Gao Xingjian sand want
