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Gao Xingjian [1940-0] Chinese

Rank: 103
Novelist

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré 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.”

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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.		101
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.	Truth	102
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?		103
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.		104
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.		105
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.		106
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.		107
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?		108
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.		109

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