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" Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. "
Svetlana Alexievich
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Nothing
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" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "
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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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" I'm not a public person. "
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" Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. "
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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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" Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature. "
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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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" 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've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "
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" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "
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" 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. "
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" My wish is to humanize history. "
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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 name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' "
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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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" '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. "
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" In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone. "
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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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" I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. "
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" Love is what brings us into this world. "
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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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" Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. "
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" The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. "
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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "
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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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