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Bei Dao on Freedom

born 1949 China

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2 quotes

Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

I will not kneel on the ground
Allowing the executioners to look tall
The better to obstruct the wind of freedom

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

Attribution

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