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Ba Jin Quotes

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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This was a good beginning. All the outmoded rules of the hospital were broken.

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.

They were engaged in a battle to save lives and as the scope of the battle became wider an increasing number of people were drawn in.

The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too.

Now my education, life and consciousness are talked about by those who cannot understand what I wrote, what I think, what is my life. They make me up from their subjective imagination and attack me publicly as well as secretly.

In the past, he had read of people with such public spirit and unselfish character only in novels. He had regarded them as nothing but ideal, imaginary creations of literary writers. Now he has seen such a hero in the flesh with his own eyes.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ba Jin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.