Ba Jin Quotes

#1. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

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#2. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

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#3. Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

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#4. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

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#5. I am a person always full of contradictions ... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

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#6. Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

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#7. Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

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#8. My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

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#9. I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

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#10. Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

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#11. Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested?

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#12. You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

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#13. I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

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