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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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

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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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" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "

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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'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 believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "

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

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" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "

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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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