When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. -Gao Xingjian

 

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Gao Xingjian quotes in our collection. Gao Xingjian is known for saying 'When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

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For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

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

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In the grand tradition, both Chinese and Western painting have a close link with literature.

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