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Lu Xun (Wade–Giles romanisation: Lu Hsün) was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese, he was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, poet, and designer. In the 1930s, he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai.

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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.

Earth, Men, Road, Way

Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.

Gided, Hang, Looks, People, Together

Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.

Discontent, Forward, Moving, People, Wheels

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Destroying, Hope, House, Iron

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

Coming, Conclusion, Fault, Faults, Suspicious, Time

I entreat fresh visions from the painters. Be lavish with your vermilion to portray the mountains in the spring.

Entreat, Mountain, Mountains, Portray, Spring, Vision

I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path.

Distract, Dream, Fulfill, Nothing, Path

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

Countryside, Hope, Like, Path

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.

Awaken, Dream, People, Things In Life

Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

Air, Engines, Heightens, Morning, School, Students

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Execution, Executions, Government, Secretly, Tyrants

The most important thing. . . was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.

Felt, Important, Literature, Mean, Movement, Promote

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

Despised, Littles, Pretend, Suits, Talk, Too Much

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?

Dare, Good, Look, Looks, Responsibility, Thinking

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

Mountainside, Path, People, Way

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think. . . . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.

Acquaintance, Dream, Earth, Humble, Perfect, Thinking

I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

Back, Desert, Felt, Fighting, Men, Real

True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

Humanity, Let, Lets, Men, Pain, People

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

Mistake, Pain, Past, People, Suffered

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

Die, Fire, Long, Stones

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