Lu Xun Quotes

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• Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

  Lu Xun

  People, Way, Path

  "A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity". Book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

  Lu Xun

  Lying, Blood, Ink

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• You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

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  Reform, World, Existential

  Lu Xun (2014). “Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

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  Moving, People, Wheels

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• I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

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  Men, Way, Earth

  Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.73, Lu Xun

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• I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Path

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• Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?

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  Pain, Sleep, Thinking

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• The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

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  Pain, Mistake, Past

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• If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

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  Fighting, Men, Speaks Out

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• The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

  Lu Xun

  Government, Tyrants, Execution

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• The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

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  Dream, Things In Life, People

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• Trust only him who doubts.

  Lu Xun

  Trust, Doubt

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• Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

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  People, Way, Path

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• Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

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  Thinking, Drunk, Prejudice

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• Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.

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  Gratitude, People, Heartfelt

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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

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  Pain, Men, People

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• To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

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  Time, Faults, Conclusion

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• True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Looks

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• I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

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  Existential

  Lu Xun (2014). “Call to Arms”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

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  People, Reform, Culture

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• I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

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  Future, Believe, Dark

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• The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

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  Mean, Important, Movement

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• Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

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  Dream, Humble, Thinking

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• All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

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  Book, Ideas, Tactics

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• But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

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  Iron, House, Destroying

  Lu Xun (2015). “Diary of a Madman and Other Stories”, p.131, Lu Xun

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