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

Svetlana Alexievich

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" I love how humans talk. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk. "

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