58 Quotes by Lu Xun

The fearful thing about the Chinese literary scene is that everyone keeps introducing new terms without defining them. And everyone interprets these terms as he pleases. To write a good deal about yourself is expressionism. To write largely about others is realism. To write poems on a girl's leg is romanticism. To ban poems on a girl's leg is classicism.

墨写的谎言掩盖不了血写的事实。

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

这刹那中他的思想又仿佛旋风似的在脑里回旋了。四年之前，他曾在山脚下遇见一只饿狼，永是不禁不远的跟定他，要吃他的肉。他那时吓得几乎要死，幸而手里有一柄砍柴刀，才德仗着壮了胆，支持到未庄；可是永远记得那狼眼睛，又凶又怯，闪闪的像两颗鬼火，似乎远远的来穿透了他的皮肉。而这回他又看见从来没有见过的更可怕的眼睛了，又钝又锋利，不但已经咀嚼了他的话，并且还要咀嚼他皮肉以外的东西，永是不远不近的跟他走。

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for?

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.