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Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian Travel

Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the sparrow wasn’t put off. It jumped inside the covered balcony and ruffled its feathers, releasing a sweet smell of tree bark into the air. Then it flew into your bedroom, landed on your chest and stayed there like a cold egg.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian Freedom Sparrow Spirit

I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian Adventure China Travel Quotes Wanderlust

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian China Medicine Revolutionary

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian China Female Females Male Chauvinism Oppression Rural Peasants Womenhood

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian Art Child Loved

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian Values People Moral

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

~ Ma Jian

Ma Jian People Opinions Want
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