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

Svetlana Alexievich

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" I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world. "

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" 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. "

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" People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. "

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" I will never write fiction. "

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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "

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" I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time. "

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

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" I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. "

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

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" I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women. "

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" I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years. "

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" 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. "

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

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" You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together. "

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" Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. "

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

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" I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings. "

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

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

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