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Quotes from The August Sleepwalker — Bei Dao

born 1949 China

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

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

I am no hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be a man

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)

Let me tell you, world,
I—do—not—believe!
If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet,
Count me as number one thousand and one. I don't believe the sky is blue:
I don't believe in thunder's echoes;
I don't believe that dreams are false:
I don't believe that death has no revenge.

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

we are not guiltless
long ago we became accomplices
of the history in the mirror

The August Sleepwalker (1990)

Attribution

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