9 Quotes by Ba Jin

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

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.

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.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can’t change it even if you kill me.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

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

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country’s misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

I’ve lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.