“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.” NeedsHumansPersonsLanguageExistenceListeningHuman NeedsTransmissionAffirming Author:Gao Xingjian
“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.” PeopleIfsMenWorldNeedsFirstsDoeEyePoliticalLiteratureNamesIndividualBreakReturnPerceptionElectionIdeologyRelyRulersExistentialTestimonyInterferenceThrough The EyesIsmsPredicaments Author:Gao Xingjian
“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.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsTwoYoungThreeCoursesKnownBabyCreaturesCapableTestsIntelligentSpeciesYoung ManFriendlyFrighteningAbsurdityManufacturingTubesRumoursHighly Intelligent Book:Soul Mountain Source: Soul Mountain
“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.” KnowsWorldNeedsShouldTryingLittlesEndsLeftMemoriesImpossibleAchieveThis WorldStructureSentencesRelateGreedyFiltersIntangibleDregsHazy Book:Soul Mountain Source: Soul Mountain
