# Mo Yan

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- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan

## Books

- [Red Sorghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mo-yan/red-sorghum.md) — 3 quotes

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> I sometimes think that there is a link between the decline in humanity and the increase in prosperity and comfort. Property and comfort are what people seek, but the costs to character are often terrifying.

> Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

> Over decades that seem but a moment in time, lines of scarlet figures shuttled among the sorghum stalks to weave a vast human tapestry. They killed, they looted, and they defended their country in a valiant, stirring ballet that makes us unfilial descendants who now occupy the land pale by comparison.