Gao Xingjian: Citations en anglais
Interview by Jean-Luc Douin http://web.archive.org/web/20130421061108/http://my.opera.com/PRC/blog/?startidx=560
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 12, p. 70
“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
“Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 5, p. 32
“They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 110, from "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather"
“Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 80, p. 503
“When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 81, p. 505
“A good man never fights with a woman.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 103
“Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 2, p. 15
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 105
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 100
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 128, from "In an instant"
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