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Wang Xiaobo: How to live honestly

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Wang Xiaobo: How to live honestly

Man's faithfulness to known facts is called honesty, and disloyalty to facts is called hypocrisy. There are also those who are only faithful to the facts of the choice, which is neither honest nor hypocritical, which I call extravagant. This is an implicit statement, which at first glance does not seem appropriate, but in fact it is still reasonable: people always choose facts out of a pompous state of mind.

In the past, I had this outlook on life: people should live for others, devote themselves to the happiness of others, and do not consider their own happiness. This is because life is short, and it is not interesting to live only for yourself. This was twenty years ago, and to say this now is to sell fame and reputation. At that time, we were all believers in Marx, and we firmly believed that we should be unselfish and exclusively self-interested. I thought it would be more glorious to help others than to enjoy myself, but also happier. If everyone were like me, there would be no struggle for power and profit, wouldn't the world be peaceful?

Wang Xiaobo: How to live honestly

Then one day, I suddenly discovered a paradox. If one day everyone is as noble as I am, helping others to be happy, then who will receive help from others? Who is willing to give up greater happiness than to help others enjoy happiness than to enjoy themselves? Everyone is not selfish, they want to benefit others, and to whom do they benefit? This is the paradox of courtesy that I found.

When people are young, one of the most headaches is to decide what they want to do in this life. In this regard, I don't have any specific advice: you can do anything, but it is best not to write novels, which is to compete with me. Of course, if you insist on writing, I have no reason to object. In short, everything is good, but to do it, this is where the value and dignity of human beings lie. When people work, they must not only use their hands, legs and waist, but also use their brains and their own hearts. I always feel that the Chinese people do not pay enough attention to this latter aspect, so that they will see the work as a sin. Losing the main source of happiness, the attitude towards life will also become gray...

Wang Xiaobo: How to live honestly

Chinese like to accept the idea that as long as you can live, it is good, and it doesn't matter what kind of life you live. Some of the movie names can be seen: "Alive", "Find Fun"... I categorically disagree with this idea, because those who hold it can live in any bad way and thus render life itself meaningless. A noble, clean, fun-filled life is good, and it's easy to get a consensus. A humble, dirty, poor life is not good, and this can also be agreed upon. But these two are not enough. To use a small metaphor, this is also my attitude towards life.

I make a living by writing. Someone said to me: It's not okay to write like this, you don't have a life! Although I look average, plus I smoke a lot, sleep less, and my face is not very good-looking. But to say that I am already a dead body, I always feel a bit exaggerated. Since man is not dead, how can he not live?

Wang Xiaobo: How to live honestly

The author lives the life of an intellectual, and if this life is called "no", it has an outdated ideological smell - you know, intellectuals are now fortunate enough to be one of the working people. Of course, I can also not chew words like this, so that I can talk about what kind of life is called "being" and what kind of life is called "nothing"; in other words, what kind of life is life and what kind of life is not called life.

Personally, I think that what you do with sex is "there is life", and what you don't know why you don't know why you do is "no life". For this reason, my life seems to be dull, but it cannot be said to be "no". There is a saying that when people are young, their hearts are always high, and they always have to surrender to reality in the end. I've just passed my forty-fourth birthday, and it seems premature to draw conclusions for myself at this age. But I always felt that I would never surrender to nothingness in my life. I will fight until I die.

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