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“a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend”

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Bei Dao

"A perpetual stranger...", p. 110
Variant translation:
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

“I am no hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be a man”

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Bei Dao

"Declaration", p. 62
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

“Let me tell you, world,
I—do—not—believe!
If a thousand challengers lie beneath your feet,
Count me as number one thousand and one.I don't believe the sky is blue:
I don't believe in thunder's echoes;
I don't believe that dreams are false:
I don't believe that death has no revenge.”

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Bei Dao

"The Answer" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50088/the-answer-56d22cd8d69d0, p. 33
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

“we are not guiltless
long ago we became accomplices
of the history in the mirror”

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"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

“Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted”

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"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

“I will not kneel on the ground
Allowing the executioners to look tall
The better to obstruct the wind of freedom”

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Bei Dao

"Declaration", p. 62
The August Sleepwalker (1990)

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