Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
“Perhaps the fires through which I had passed would have a purifying effect on me, just as a blast furnace burns the impurities out of steel.”
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