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June Fourth Elegies

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Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo (December 28, 1955 – July 13, 2017) was a Chinese literary critic, writer, and thinker. Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, he graduated from Beijing Normal University and later taught there. He was known for his literary criticism and social commentary, participating in the 1980s Chinese intellectual liberation movement. He criticized contemporary Chinese culture, politics, and society. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was unable to attend the ceremony. He died of liver cancer in Beijing in 2017. more

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“In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.”

“Is there a feeling as love at first sight ? and if there be, in what does its nature differ from love founded in long observation and slow growth? perhaps its effect are not permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense. We walk the pathless mazes of society vacant of joy till we hold this clue, leading us though that labyrinth of paradise and our nature dim like to an enlightened touch sleeps in formless blank till the fire attain it”

“We placed his remains under a cypress, the upright mountain being scooped out to receive them. And then Clara said, ‘If you wish me to live, take me from hence. There is something in this scene of transcendent beauty, in these trees, and hills and waves, that for ever whisper to me, leave thy cumbrous flesh, and make a part of us. I earnestly entreat you to take me away.”