People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
AI WEIWEIImagine 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?
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
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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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What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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