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" Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Conquer
Impossible
Nature
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" We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs. "
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" My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts. "
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" I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I am drawn to that small space called a human being... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens. "
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" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "
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" To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible. "
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Your
" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "
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" Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg. "
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" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Child
Book
Women
" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Give
Need
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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Writer
Five
Wanted
" I'm not a public person. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Public
Person
" I love how humans talk. "
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Love
Talk
How
" 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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People
War
Men
" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "
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Love
Greatest
Voice
" What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Remember
Less
People
" It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Up
Always
Important
" In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Train
Listen
Street
" For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "
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Airplane
Black
Boxes
" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Find
Internet
People
" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Place
People
Talk
" I will never write fiction. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Will
Write
Fiction
" I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk. "
Svetlana Alexievich
City
Father
Back
" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "
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Always
Reality
Paper
" 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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Beautiful
Women
Fishing
" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "
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Moral
Think
Deceived
" 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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Men
Live
Interesting
" 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. "
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Easy
Me
Eye
" Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire. "
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People
Great
Age
" 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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Understand
I Can
Humanity