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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Quant pot valdre la vida humana si recordem que fa poc morien milions de persones per causes no naturals? Estem plens d’odi i de prejudicis.”

101. “Quant pot valdre la vida humana si recordem que fa poc morien milions de persones per causes no naturals? Estem plens d’odi i de prejudicis.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Recordar es, sobre todo, un acto creativo. Al relatar, la gente crea, redacta, su vida.”

102. “Recordar es, sobre todo, un acto creativo. Al relatar, la gente crea, redacta, su vida.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “They call the souls down from heaven. Those who had people die this year cry, and those whose people died earlier, don’t. They talk, they remember. Everyone prays. And those who don’t know how to pray, also pray.”

103. “They call the souls down from heaven. Those who had people die this year cry, and those whose people died earlier, don’t. They talk, they remember. Everyone prays. And those who don’t know how to pray, also pray.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’ll explain it to you: it’s terrible to remember, but it’s far more terrible not to remember.”

104. “I’ll explain it to you: it’s terrible to remember, but it’s far more terrible not to remember.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “What helps me? That we are used to living together. Communally. We are communal people. With us everything is in common – both happiness and tears. We know how to suffer and how to tell people about our suffering. Suffering justifies our hard and ungainly life. For us pain is art. I must admit, women boldly set out this path.”

105. “What helps me? That we are used to living together. Communally. We are communal people. With us everything is in common – both happiness and tears. We know how to suffer and how to tell people about our suffering. Suffering justifies our hard and ungainly life. For us pain is art. I must admit, women boldly set out this path.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “War and prision are the two most important words in the Russian language.”

106. “War and prision are the two most important words in the Russian language.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We’re going to die, we’re going to die. By the year 2000, there won’t be any Belarussians left.” My daughter was six years old. I’m putting her to bed, and she whispers in my ear: “Daddy, I want to live, I’m still little.” And I had thought she didn’t understand anything. Can.”

107. “We’re going to die, we’re going to die. By the year 2000, there won’t be any Belarussians left.” My daughter was six years old. I’m putting her to bed, and she whispers in my ear: “Daddy, I want to live, I’m still little.” And I had thought she didn’t understand anything. Can.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “There’s not much humanity in a human being – that’s what war taught me.”

108. “There’s not much humanity in a human being – that’s what war taught me.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Today, it’s shameful being poor and unathletic-it’s a sign that you’re not making it.”

109. “Today, it’s shameful being poor and unathletic-it’s a sign that you’re not making it.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “But there’s no need to pity us. We’re proud. Let them rewrite history ten times. With Stalin or without Stalin. But this remains-we were victorious! And our sufferings. What we lived through. This isn’t junk and ashes. This is our life.”

110. “But there’s no need to pity us. We’re proud. Let them rewrite history ten times. With Stalin or without Stalin. But this remains-we were victorious! And our sufferings. What we lived through. This isn’t junk and ashes. This is our life.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Do you know that it can be a sin to give birth? I’d never heard those words before. Katya.”

111. “Do you know that it can be a sin to give birth? I’d never heard those words before. Katya.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “If anyone got indignant and wanted to take the coffin back home, they were told that the dead were now, you know, heroes, and that they no longer belonged to their families. They were heroes of the State. They belonged to the State. We.”

112. “If anyone got indignant and wanted to take the coffin back home, they were told that the dead were now, you know, heroes, and that they no longer belonged to their families. They were heroes of the State. They belonged to the State. We.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “But I’m never lonely, a man who believes can never be lonely. I ride around the villages – I used to find spaghetti, flour – even vegetable oil. Canned fruit. Now I go to the cemeteries – people leave food and drink for the dead. But the dead don’t need it. They don’t mind. In the fields there’s wild grain, and in the forest there are mushrooms and berries. Freedom is here. I.”

113. “But I’m never lonely, a man who believes can never be lonely. I ride around the villages – I used to find spaghetti, flour – even vegetable oil. Canned fruit. Now I go to the cemeteries – people leave food and drink for the dead. But the dead don’t need it. They don’t mind. In the fields there’s wild grain, and in the forest there are mushrooms and berries. Freedom is here. I.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they’re safer than samovars. They’re like stars and we’ll “light” the whole earth with them.”

114. “I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they’re safer than samovars. They’re like stars and we’ll “light” the whole earth with them.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I often thought that the simples fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts – they cover up our feelings. The development of these feelings, the spilling of these feelings past the facts, is what fascinantes me. I try to find them, collect them, protect them.”

115. “I often thought that the simples fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts – they cover up our feelings. The development of these feelings, the spilling of these feelings past the facts, is what fascinantes me. I try to find them, collect them, protect them.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Back then everyone was saying: “We’re going to die, we’re going to die. By the year 2000, there won’t be any Belarussians left.”

116. “Back then everyone was saying: “We’re going to die, we’re going to die. By the year 2000, there won’t be any Belarussians left.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “This economic takeover, necessitating a great deal of corrupt maneuvering, also leads to the necessity of silencing criticism and dissent in the press.”

117. “This economic takeover, necessitating a great deal of corrupt maneuvering, also leads to the necessity of silencing criticism and dissent in the press.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “When you’re part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking.”

118. “When you’re part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “If you don’t play, you lose. There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.’”

119. “If you don’t play, you lose. There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. ‘Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.’”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “My feelings are my feelings, whether they feel good or hurt, I don’t want to be unplugged from myself.”

120. “My feelings are my feelings, whether they feel good or hurt, I don’t want to be unplugged from myself.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Someone sang a rhyme at a wedding, “We should thank Stalin, our brother, he put all our feet in rubber.” That was enough. On one hand, the system was butchering people, but on the other hand, the people didn’t show one another much mercy, either.”

121. “Someone sang a rhyme at a wedding, “We should thank Stalin, our brother, he put all our feet in rubber.” That was enough. On one hand, the system was butchering people, but on the other hand, the people didn’t show one another much mercy, either.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’m searching for a language. People speak many different languages: There’s the one they use with children, another one for love. There’s the language we use to talk to ourselves, for our internal monologues. On the street, at work, while traveling – everywhere you go, you’ll hear something different, and it’s not just the words, there’s something else, too. There’s even a difference between the way people speak in the morning and how they speak at night...”

122. “I’m searching for a language. People speak many different languages: There’s the one they use with children, another one for love. There’s the language we use to talk to ourselves, for our internal monologues. On the street, at work, while traveling – everywhere you go, you’ll hear something different, and it’s not just the words, there’s something else, too. There’s even a difference between the way people speak in the morning and how they speak at night...”

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123. “We’d go into battle with one riffle for every four men. When they kill the first one, the second one grabs the riffle, after the second one, the next one. Meanwhile, the germans all had brand-new machine guns.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.”

124. “The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I can’t count money. My memory’s not right. The doctors can’t understand it. I go from hospital to hospital. But this sticks in my head: you’re walking up to the house, thinking the house is empty, and you open the door and there’s this cat. That, and those kids’ notes.”

125. “I can’t count money. My memory’s not right. The doctors can’t understand it. I go from hospital to hospital. But this sticks in my head: you’re walking up to the house, thinking the house is empty, and you open the door and there’s this cat. That, and those kids’ notes.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “You’re going to say that you’re a tractor specialist,” I said to Slyunkov, he’d been a director of a tractor factory, “and that you didn’t understand what radiation could do, but I’m a physicist, I know what the consequences are.” But from his point of view, what was this? Some professor, a bunch of physicists, were going to tell the Central Committee what to do? No, they weren’t a gang of criminals. It was more like a conspiracy of ignorance and obedience.”

126. “You’re going to say that you’re a tractor specialist,” I said to Slyunkov, he’d been a director of a tractor factory, “and that you didn’t understand what radiation could do, but I’m a physicist, I know what the consequences are.” But from his point of view, what was this? Some professor, a bunch of physicists, were going to tell the Central Committee what to do? No, they weren’t a gang of criminals. It was more like a conspiracy of ignorance and obedience.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”

127. “We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a process.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “That first March a pile grew up behind the hospital – a pile of amputated arms, legs and other bits of our men. Dead bodies with gouged-out eyes, and stars carved into the skin of their backs and stomachs by the mujahedin.”

128. “That first March a pile grew up behind the hospital – a pile of amputated arms, legs and other bits of our men. Dead bodies with gouged-out eyes, and stars carved into the skin of their backs and stomachs by the mujahedin.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The most important thing is spiritual labor... Books... You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can’t live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”

129. “The most important thing is spiritual labor... Books... You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can’t live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.”

130. “Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the deliberate product of a culture of cronyism, laziness, and a deep-seated indifference toward the general population.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’m a history teacher... within my memory the history textbook has been rewritten three times. I taught children with three different textbooks... Ask us while we’re alive. Don’t rewrite afterward without us. Ask...”

131. “I’m a history teacher... within my memory the history textbook has been rewritten three times. I taught children with three different textbooks... Ask us while we’re alive. Don’t rewrite afterward without us. Ask...”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’ve forgotten everything... even love... but I still remember the war...”

132. “I’ve forgotten everything... even love... but I still remember the war...”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.”

133. “The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana.”

134. “These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “According to Abkhazian custom, the time you spend with guests around the table doesn’t count toward your lifespan because you’re drinking wine and enjoying yourself.”

135. “According to Abkhazian custom, the time you spend with guests around the table doesn’t count toward your lifespan because you’re drinking wine and enjoying yourself.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Why is it that seventeenand eighteen-year-olds find it easier to kill than thirty-year-olds, for example? Because they have no pity, that’s why.”

136. “Why is it that seventeenand eighteen-year-olds find it easier to kill than thirty-year-olds, for example? Because they have no pity, that’s why.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People yelled at them as they were leaving, that they were running away just like women. That they were cowards, betraying their motherland. But is that bad? Is it a bad thing not to be able to shoot?”

137. “People yelled at them as they were leaving, that they were running away just like women. That they were cowards, betraying their motherland. But is that bad? Is it a bad thing not to be able to shoot?”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.”

138. “Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.”

139. “Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People always want to live, even during wartime. You’ll learn a lot from living through a war... There is no beast worse than man.”

140. “People always want to live, even during wartime. You’ll learn a lot from living through a war... There is no beast worse than man.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “You’re all like black boxes here,” he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we’re living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we’re just recording information!”

141. “You’re all like black boxes here,” he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we’re living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we’re just recording information!”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I was in Afghanistan too. It was easier there. They just shot you.”

142. “I was in Afghanistan too. It was easier there. They just shot you.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Man saved only himself: everything else he betrayed.”

143. “Man saved only himself: everything else he betrayed.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Truth is communal.”

144. “Truth is communal.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “War kills time, precious human time.”

145. “War kills time, precious human time.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Yur Karyakin once wrote: ‘We should not judge a man’s life by his perception of himself. Such a perception may be tragically inadequate.’ And I read something in Kafka to the effect that man was irretrievably lost within himself.”

146. “Yur Karyakin once wrote: ‘We should not judge a man’s life by his perception of himself. Such a perception may be tragically inadequate.’ And I read something in Kafka to the effect that man was irretrievably lost within himself.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “During the war, one out of every four Belarussians was killed; today, one out of every five Belarussians lives on contaminated land. This amounts to 2.1 million people, of whom 700,000 are children. Among the demographic factors responsible for the depopulation of Belarus, radiation is number one. In the Gomel and Mogilev regions, which suffered the most from Chernobyl, mortality rates exceed birth rates by 20%. As.”

147. “During the war, one out of every four Belarussians was killed; today, one out of every five Belarussians lives on contaminated land. This amounts to 2.1 million people, of whom 700,000 are children. Among the demographic factors responsible for the depopulation of Belarus, radiation is number one. In the Gomel and Mogilev regions, which suffered the most from Chernobyl, mortality rates exceed birth rates by 20%. As.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I am afraid of man. And also I want to meet him. I want to meet a good person.”

148. “I am afraid of man. And also I want to meet him. I want to meet a good person.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “My past no longer protects me. There aren’t any answers there. They were there before, but now they’re not. The future is destroying me, not the past.”

149. “My past no longer protects me. There aren’t any answers there. They were there before, but now they’re not. The future is destroying me, not the past.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Man frightens me, but I always like meeting one. A good man.”

150. “Man frightens me, but I always like meeting one. A good man.”

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