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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Ai Weiwei

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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Above Beyond Experience Feeling Over People Physical Poetry Reality
If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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Laughing Look Successful
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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Clear Giving Man Often Rational Reaction Reason Tendency Trying
We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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Culture Everything Overexposed Popular Living
After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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China Long Periods
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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Act Change Chinese Kind Society Tell Thinking World
We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet.
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Cleaned Highly Hole Literally Lived Poet Respected Toilet Underground Yera
You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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Complicated Issue Looked Somebody Still
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
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Art Code Design Everyone Open Secret
These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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Expressed Freedom Hero Idea Lost Nonviolent People Truth
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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Democracy Education Material Soil Universal Wealth
And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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Competition Ground Hold Ideology Lost Strong Win
I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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China Feelings This Society
What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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Access Express Important Realm Wish
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
I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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Change Distinct Person Purpose Thinking West

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