Ba Jin Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Ba Jin

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

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

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

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

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

Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested? — Ba Jin

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

Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you. — Ba Jin

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. — Ba Jin

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. — Ba Jin

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

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

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