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1904–2005 China
Li Yaotang 李尧棠 (or Li Feigan; Zi: 芾甘) (November 25 1904 – October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (巴金, also written Pa Chin). He created this pseudonym in 1929 from the first syllable of Bakunin and of the last syllable of Kropotkin, the famous Russian anarchists.
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We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005)
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
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.
The battle to save life is still going on.
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat.
Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005)
He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him.
The unreasonable social system, the marriage without freedom, the yoke of traditional ideas, and the family autocracy, destroyed we don't know how many young souls.
Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.
Every town in China should establish a museum about the Cultural Revolution.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
I felt a joy in my heart, which seemed filled with love, love for the sun, the snow, the wind and the hills, love for everything around me.
This battle to save life will eventually be won.
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
The Cold Nights 寒夜 (1947)
You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
It was as if I heard a painful sound saying: "This must be ended."
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.
Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed.
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