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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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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. "

" 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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" For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "

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" Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror. "

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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. "

" Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry. "

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

" 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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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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. "

" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a public person. "

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" From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people. "

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

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

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" Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper. "

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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. "