Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the… - Ba Jin

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Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

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Li Yaotang 李尧棠 (or Li Feigan; Zi: 芾甘) (November 25 1904 – October 17 2005) was a Chinese writer and anarchist; he was most famous under his pen name of Ba Jin (巴金, 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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Native Name: 巴金

Alternative Names: Li Yaotang • Li Feigan • Pa Chin • Pa Kin

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Nor I, I don't think there could be a situation like that. Love is shining and righteous; there's nothing hidden about it. If a man 's heart is really ardent, how can he give the appearance of being cold and disinterested?

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things … I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

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