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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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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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" 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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" 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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" My wish is to humanize history. "

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" When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself. "

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

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" My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts. "

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" Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. "

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

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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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" We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together. "

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" Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. "

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