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" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Moral
Think
Deceived
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" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "
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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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Out
Lie
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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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
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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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
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" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "
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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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
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" 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
" There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Give
Need
Count
" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Them
Characters
Idea
" 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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Words
Walk
Darkness
" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Only
Doing
Evil
" I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Myself
Mother
Father
" I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. "
Svetlana Alexievich
People
Love
Very
" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Tools
Happens
I Am
" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Always
Reality
Paper
" 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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
You
Want
Story
" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "
Svetlana Alexievich
About
Feelings
Write
" 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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Me
People
History
" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Time
Earth
History
" 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. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Work
You
Say
" Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Skin
Leave
Hatred
" I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Almost
Only
Up
" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "
Svetlana Alexievich
One Thing
Buy
Freedom
" 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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World
Stalin
Love
" 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
" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Writer
Five
Wanted
" 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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Mystery
Human
Evil
" 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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Our
Fight
Get
" Love is what brings us into this world. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Brings
Love
Love Is