I thought: 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.

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

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

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle!