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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" I grew up in the countryside. "

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" I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me. "

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

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" I'm not a public person. "

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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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" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "

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" There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters. "

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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. "

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

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

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" I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer. "

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

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

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

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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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" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My wish is to humanize history. "

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