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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

Ai Weiwei

If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Blog Cat Nothing Personal Photo Really Watches
I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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Bear Independent Responsibility System Totally
Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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Country Freedom Heart More Powerful Take
A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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Built Content Good Manage Research System Taxpayer Thousand
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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Condition Gave Kind Mistreatment Society
I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Country Crime Independent Internal Modeled Most Party Prison Restricted Year
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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Artist Dignity Else Right Speak Then
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Free Life Live Single Speech Vain
Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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Learning New Practice Rewarding Something
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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Find Happiness Own Place
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
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Abstract Care City Country Enough Large Nobody Quite Stuck
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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Fairytale Music Nation Tragedy
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Expression Free Respect Silence
The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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Itself Mean Photography Practice Reality Recording
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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Art Communication Definition Expression Freedom Sound Wall Way

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