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All Quotes by author - Svetlana Alexievich

" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "

" All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again. "

" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "

" America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11. "

" Art is always kind of snooping and listening in. "

" A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive. "

" Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. "

" Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. "

" Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back. "

" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "

" Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness. "

" For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "

" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "

" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

" From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people. "

" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "

" Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. "

" Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature. "

" I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person. "

" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "

" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "

" I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature. "

" I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "

" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "

" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "

" I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. "

" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "

" I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death. "

" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "

" I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different. "

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