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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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Understand
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Humanity
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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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" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "
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" Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. "
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" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "
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" I'm not a public person. "
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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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" I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. "
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" The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. "
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" 'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. "
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" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "
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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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" Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror. "
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" There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters. "
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" I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years. "
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" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "
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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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" 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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" There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them. "
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" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
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" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "
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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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" 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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