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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important. "

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

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" We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again. "

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

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" I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same. "

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" I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. "

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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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" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "

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" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "

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" I want to live at home. You can only write at home. "

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" I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. "

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" My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women. "

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" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "

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

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

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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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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "

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

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" Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. "

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" I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu. "

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" Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love. "

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