With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
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When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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