Wang Xiaobo’s classic quotations: Unfortunately, everyone has his own destiny. You have no choice. If I could choose, I wouldn’t want to live here and now.
1. There are only two kinds of people in this world from beginning to end: one is people like me, and the other is people who are not like me.
2. I think everyone has an essence. I am essentially a gangster and a bandit. If you put it in the right place, it will shine, but it is very inappropriate to be a citizen in a city or a teacher in a school.
3. I can do anything in this life, but I can’t be a person who can tell right from wrong.
4. When everything "begins", there will be nothing terrible in the world. I'm just a little afraid of death now. I won’t be afraid anymore after I die.
5. If I want to wake up from a dream, I have to figure out when I fell asleep so that I can escape from the dream. This is the only way.
6. It is not enough for a person to only have this life, he should also have a poetic world.
7. Unfortunately, everyone has his own destiny. You have no choice. If I could choose, I wouldn't want to live here and now.
8. Wisdom is good in itself. One day we will all die, but there will still be people who are pursuing the path of wisdom. I can't see what happens after death, but when I'm alive, I feel very happy when I think about it.
9. Everything is inevitably moving towards vulgarity.
10. The secret to survival is: stay stupid without knowing how stupid you are.
11. When you are very poor, it feels wonderful to use the things you have stolen!
12. Walk in the sky, in silence, with your penis hanging upside down.
13. The frog in the well also owns a sky.
14. Loneliness and silence, between two bamboo fences, the fences are full of purple morning glories, and on each flower stamen, a blue dragonfly falls.
15. I firmly believe that the world everyone sees should not be the world in front of them. The world in front of us is nothing more than eating, drinking and sleeping. Is this enough? Also, I get angry when I see people creating crude things that insult people’s wisdom, and I get mad when I see people advocating animalistic carnival. I always thought that with the fraternity of Victor Hugo, the wisdom of Bernard Shaw, and Romain Rolland’s clear explanation of what beauty is, people should no longer be ignorant, and disgusting things should not be praised in any case. Well, people will never succeed without some profound wisdom.
16. I believe that imbecility, paranoia, and poor thinking are the greatest evils. Of course, I don’t want to recommend this standard to others, but I think people who are smart, optimistic, and knowledgeable are more trustworthy than others.
17. Li Weigong was very talented when he was young, so he couldn't find a job and had to become a gangster.
18. I am against stupidity, not against people who are born stupid. There are only a very small number of such people, and such people are eager to become smart. Most stupid people in this world have an element of pretending and making things look real.
19. According to my opinion, everyone’s nature is to be lazy, lustful and greedy. If you are diligent and frugal and keep your integrity, you are committing the crime of pretense, which is worse than being lazy, lustful and greedy. Fornication is even more abominable.
20. Studying is to get into college, getting into university is to get a Ph.D., getting a Ph.D. is to be in charge of engineering in the future, and being in charge of engineering is to embezzle public funds.
21. I quoted Kundera’s words (when humans think, God laughs), and when the leader heard it, he said: God must be criticized!
22. I said: "Yaoyao, what do you think the light of the mercury lamp looks like? Large groups of dandelions floating on the river in the street, swallowing soft needle-like light." Yaoyao said: "Okay, so what if we are walking on the sidewalk? What about this dim street light?" I looked up at the street light, which cast its dim light to the ground through the misty fog.
I said: "We seem to be at the bottom of the pond, walking from one moon to another." The Yaoyao suddenly made a fuss and shouted: "Chen Hui, you are a poet! You have a real poet's temperament!"
< p> 23. Those who can sing must sing their own songs. For those who cannot sing, all the songs in the world are of no use to him.24. Anti-entropy, either our people are traitors.
25. It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but if everyone pursues such a process, they will eventually crowd into low places, bustling like maggots...
26. Dreams have an absurd reality, and reality has a real absurdity.
27. Life is the sound of nature, you need to listen attentively and quietly.
28. Resist grief and live in this world.
29. Time flies is everything to a person, and the rest is just a moment of joy and misfortune.
30. A person lives in this world to endure all the devastation. If you understand this, you can handle everything calmly.
31. Although time flies by and everything will pass, there are always some things that have happened that cannot be erased.
32. When I was a child, my view of life was this: No matter when and where we are, we are participating in a game. The one who gets the highest score according to the rules of the game wins. There is no other purpose. . Specifically, this is often true, except during stinky times. For example, when you go to school, you get high scores from the teacher, and when you go on the field, you get high scores from the referees. In the United States, these scores are the way to make money.
33. If there are too many chickens, they will not lay eggs, but if there are too many women, they will cause trouble.
34. There is an open secret that you must also know: most feminist philosophers, whether they are called Julan or Shufen, are just transvestite men who dress in high-end clothes. He wears a sweater to cover up his Adam's apple, and wears a pair of high-heeled shoes the size of a sea-going ship under his skirt. He is sprinkled with too much perfume, and his farts are so loud that even the paid toilets on the street put up signs: Philosophers are not allowed to enter.
35. If I want to write something, I don’t care whether it is in style or not, just like when I talk about love, I never start with loving the motherland.
36. Good writing has a crystal-like brilliance, as if it comes from the stars.
37. After growing up in meditation, I began to like poetry. I've read a lot of poetry, some of it really good poetry. Good poems describe different things, and their rhythms vary, but they all have something in common. It has a crystal-like brilliance, as if it comes from the stars... I really hope to read it forever and break this lonely sea. I wish I could write a poem like this. I wish I was a star too.
38. Everyone’s meanness is born and can never be changed. The more you try to hide your meanness, the meaner you will become. The only way to escape is to admit your bitch and try to like it.
39. All human pain is essentially anger at one’s own incompetence.
40. Life is a slow process of being hammered.
41. For an intellectual, becoming a thinking elite is more important than becoming a moral elite.
42. It’s so damn interesting that there are so many obstacles in our lives, this logic is called black humor.
43. Unfortunately, any kind of negative life can produce a lot of messy details, making it quite interesting; people sink in this kind of fun, and from then on Basically forgetting that this kind of life needs improvement.
44. When people write, they are always alone. The works are actually personal monologues, letters sent out. I feel that I lack opportunities to communicate with others - I believe this is a common experience for people who write serious literature. But in this world, besides yourself, there are others; besides the people around you, there is also the whole human race. The meaning of writing is to communicate with people. For this reason, I keep writing.
45. I have very low requirements for myself: when I live in the world, I just want to understand some truths and encounter some interesting things. If it goes as I wish, my life will be considered a success.
The article is excerpted from: "Loving You Like Loving Life" Author: Wang Xiaobo Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House