June Fourth Elegies Quotes

“Life is priceless
even to an ant”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“Those who flee freedom live on
but their souls die in fear
Those who thirst for freedom die
but their souls live on in resistance”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“As facing the sea reveals the sky
and facing the sky reveals the sea
facing my soul reveals your soul”
― Xiaobo Liu, June Fourth Elegies

“In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns.”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“Life numbed, unceasing, interminable, from zero begins to zero it ends.”
― Xiaobo Liu, June Fourth Elegies

“Before the eyes shut
this knife shines snow-
bright once more through the inner organs
as using a nuclear bomb to light a cigar
sends lung cancer across the earth
to parting lovers”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“Patriotism is a villain's last refuge.”
― Xiaobo Liu, June Fourth Elegies

“Inasmuch as resistance is a choice to descend into hell, one musn't complain about the darkness.”
― Xiaobo Liu, June Fourth Elegies

“The ease with which money
forgives bayonets and lies
to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments”
― Liu Xiaobo, June Fourth Elegies

“Gustavo Solivellas dice:" La libertad de expresión es la base de los derechos humanos, la raíz de la naturaleza humana y la madre de la verdad. Matar la libertad de expresión es insultar los derechos humanos, es reprimir la naturaleza humana y suprimir la verdad "(Liu Xiaobo)”
― Liu Xiaobo, Eleg as del 4 de junio