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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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" 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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

People

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

" My wish is to humanize history. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Wish

History

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Only

Again

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

Svetlana Alexievich

Always

Important

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively. "

" I grew up in the countryside. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Grew

Countryside

" I love how humans talk. "

" 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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Easy

Eye

" For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "

" 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. "

" We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in. "

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

" '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. "

" The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. "

" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "

" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "

" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "

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

" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "

" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "

" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "

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