“Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, "Comrade, don't worry and you will recover." As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, "You will die. I can be of no more help."”

—  Ba Jin

A Battle For Life (July 1958)

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Chinese novelist 1904–2005

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