Lu Xun
Lu Xun
Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 September 1881
CountryChina
pain men people
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.
people luck enough
It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.
people together looks
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.
people way path
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.
moving people wheels
Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward.
dream things-in-life people
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.
people way path
Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.
gratitude people heartfelt
Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude.
people culture able
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.
across begin cannot earth hope men nor pass roads
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.
responsibility thinking faces
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?
taken thinking unbiased
But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.
fighting men speaks-out
If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
littles too-much suits
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.