Gao Xingjian: Want

Gao Xingjian is Chinese novelist and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on want.
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“I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.”

Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 99

“The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.”

Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 101

“When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.”

Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 81, p. 505

“She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.”

Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 128, from "In an instant"