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" 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

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

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

" I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult. "

" '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. "

" A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive. "

" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "

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

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

" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "

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

" We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs. "

" I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' "

" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "

" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "

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

" I will never write fiction. "

" We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is. "

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

Svetlana Alexievich

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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. "

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

" It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "