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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

Ashes Hate World
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

Burning Fire Writing
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
BA JIN

Believe Comedy Writing
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

Change Facts Kill Me
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
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
BA JIN

Forget Forget The Past Past
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

Eye Moving Writing
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

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

Live Reader Royalty Support
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

All Kind Kinds Littles

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