"I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself."

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Source : "Living without 'isms'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

Gao Xingjian

#Strong Quotes #Hero Quotes #Want Quotes

“I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.”
“Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?”
“I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.”

Source : "Pop's future" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2006.
“Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.”
“Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.”
“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”
“Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.”
“I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?”

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