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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

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I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

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Society becomes very destructive.

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By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

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A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it’s incomplete.

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China has a rich history that has spanned millennia. It consists of the histories of many nations and regions.

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If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

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What counts in the end is what the government does.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, the jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

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