Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes
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I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
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What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
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All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.
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Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
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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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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
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Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
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Love is what brings us into this world.