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

Svetlana Alexievich

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" My wish is to humanize history. "

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

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" I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings. "

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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. "

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" Art is always kind of snooping and listening in. "

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" I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time. "

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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "

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" A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. "

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" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "

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

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

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

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" I grew up in the countryside. "

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

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

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" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

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" I want to live at home. You can only write at home. "

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" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "

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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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" 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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" I love how humans talk. "

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" 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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" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "

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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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