"Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties."
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Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian (pronounced [kĂĄu ÉÄĆ tÉiÉÌn]; Chinese: é«èĄć„; pinyin: GÄo XĂngjiĂ n; Wade-Giles: Kao Hsing-chien; born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, and critic. An Ă©migrĂ© to France, Gao was granted the French citizenship in 1997. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and [[w:EugĂšn
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