Ba Jin Quotes

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

  Ba Jin

  Past, Forget The Past, Forget

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

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

  Ba Jin

  Facts, Kill Me, Can't Change

  "Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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• 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.

  Ba Jin

  Attitude, Judging, Be True To Yourself

  "Living legend: Ba Jin". "News Guangdong", November 26, 2003.

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• 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.

  Ba Jin

  Hate, Ashes, World

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• 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.

  Ba Jin

  Soldier, Revolution, Contradiction

  "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.

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

  Ba Jin

  Moving, Writing, Eye

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". "China Daily", November 24, 2003.

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

  Ba Jin

  Writing, Fire, Burning

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". www.chinadaily.com.cn. November 24, 2003.

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• Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

  Ba Jin

  Museums, Heaven, Revolution

  "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.

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

  Ba Jin

  Country, Luck, Victory

  "The Cold Nights". Book by Ba Jin, 1947.

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

  Ba Jin

  Believe, Writing, Comedy

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• 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.

  Ba Jin

  Littles, Kind, All Kinds

  "Ba Jin". Obituary in "The Times", October 25, 2005.

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

  Ba Jin

  Royalty, Reader

  "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.

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