Shouted out at the end of a televised public humiliation in the People's Stadium of Shanghai, during the "Cultural Revolution" (20 June 1968), as quoted in Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005) by Khoon Choy Lee
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You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
— Ba Jin
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me." in the context of "Shouted out at the end of a televised public humiliation in the People's Stadium of Shanghai, during the "Cultural Revolution" (20 June 1968), as quoted in Pioneers of Modern China : Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese (2005) by Khoon Choy Lee" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Ba Jin" (Quotes)
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About Ba Jin
Li Yaotang ๆๅฐงๆฃ (or Li Feigan; Zi: ่พ็) (November 25 1904 โ October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (ๅทด้, also written Pa Chin). He created this pseudonym in 1929 from the first syllable of Bakunin and of the last syllable of Kropotkin, the famous Russian anarchists.
About Ba Jin
Li Yaotang ๆๅฐงๆฃ (or Li Feigan; Zi: ่พ็) (November 25 1904 โ October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (ๅทด้, also written Pa Chin). He created this pseudonym in 1929 from the first syllable of Bakunin and of the last syllable of Kropotkin, the famous Russian anarchists.
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