Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.
A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.
All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.
America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.
Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.
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.
Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.
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.
Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.
Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.
For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.
Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.
Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.
I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.
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Svetlana Alexievich
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31 May, 1948
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