I’ve lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
BA JIN
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I’ve lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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