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Gao Xingjian

writer, painter, translator, novelist, playwright, literary critic, film director, screenwriter

1940

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator, screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.

All Quotes by Gao Xingjian

“With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.”
— Gao Xingjian
“Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.”
— Gao Xingjian
“I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.”
— Gao Xingjian
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”
— Gao Xingjian
“It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.”
— Gao Xingjian