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" I want to live at home. You can only write at home. "
Svetlana Alexievich
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" I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people. "
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" 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. "
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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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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "
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" 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. "
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" I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there. "
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" I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains. "
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" I will never write fiction. "
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" 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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" 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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" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "
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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
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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. "
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" I love how humans talk. "
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" Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back. "
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" Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love. "
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