Ba Jin famous quotes

05-14-2025

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

#Hate #Ashes #World
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

#Littles #Kind #All Kinds
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. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
-- Ba Jin

#Museums #Heaven #Revolution
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
-- Ba Jin

#Believe #Writing #Comedy
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

#Soldier #Revolution #Contradiction
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

#Writing #Fire #Burning
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
-- Ba Jin

#Royalty #Reader
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
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 #Be True To Yourself
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
-- Ba Jin

#Past #Forget The Past #Forget
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

#Moving #Writing #Eye
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

#Facts #Kill Me

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