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Top 160 Svetlana Alexievich Quotes (2024 Update)
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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “They’re all Tajiks, they have the same Koran, the same faith, but the Kulyabs kill the Pamirs, and the Pamirs kill the Kulyabs. First they’d go out into the city square, yelling, praying. I wanted to understand what was happening, so I went too. I asked one of the old men: “What are you protesting against?” They said: “Against the Parliament. They told us this was a very bad person, this Parliament.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The feelings and language of educated people, strange as it may be, are often more subject to the working of time. Its general encrypting. They are infected by secondary knowledge. By myths.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “But I’m talking about something else – I think about it a lot. At the cemetery. Some people pray loudly, others quietly. And some people say: ‘Open up, yellow sand. Open up, dark night.’ The forest might do it, but the sand never will. I’ll ask gently: ‘Ivan. Ivan, how should I live?’ But he doesn’t answer me anything, one way or the other.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “No one knows what’s in the other world. It’s better here. More familiar.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People aren’t heroes. We’re all – peddlers of the apocalypse. Big and small. I have these images in my mind, these pictures.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we’d been taught that this was a magical factory that made “energy out of nothing,” where people in white robes sat and pushed buttons. Chernobyl blew up when we weren’t prepared.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Today many people, especially the young, think it was only America that defeated Hitler. Little is known about the price the Soviet people paid for the victory – twenty million human lives in four years.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I used to think that if I told someone about this, afterward I would have to run away from that person and never see them again.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Thinking about money was bourgeois, thinking about your own life was unpatriotic. The normal state of life was hunger. They, our parents, lived through a great catastrophe, and we needed to live through it, too. Otherwise we’d never become real people. That’s how we’re made. If we just work each day and eat well – that would be strange and intolerable! We.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “A communist is someone who’s read Marx, an anticommunist is someone who’s understood him.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Fear is more human than bravery, you’re scared and you’re sorry, at least for yourself, but you force your fear back into your subconscious. And you try not to think that you may end up lying here, thousands of miles from home. There are men flying around in space but down here we go on killing each other as we have done for a thousand years, with bullets, knives and stones.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.”
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.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I am afraid of man. And also I want to meet him. I want to meet a good person.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Question: Is the world as it’s depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russians need “blacks” so they can feel “white.” So they have someone to look down on.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “At night I wake up from my mother saying, “Sonny, why aren’t you saying anything? You’re not asleep, you’re lying there with your eyes open. And your light’s on.” I don’t say anything. No one can speak to me in a way I can answer. In my own language. No one can understand where I’ve come back from. And I can’t tell anyone.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “After I got back I couldn’t bear to wear my ‘pre-war’ jeans and shirts. They belonged to some stranger, although they still smelt of me, as my mother assured me. That stranger no longer exists.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Truth is communal.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We share a communist collective memory. We’re neighbors in memory.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “War kills time, precious human time.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Do you know how beautiful a morning at war can be? Before combat... You look and you know: this may be your last. The earth is so beautiful... And the air... And the dear sun...”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian can’t convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Where are we going to get tens of thousands of dollars if my husband makes 120 dollars a month? One professor told us quietly: “With her pathologies, your child is of great interest to science. You should write to hospitals in other countries. They should be interested.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “The only righteous thing on the face of the earth is death. No one has ever bribed their way out of that. The earth takes us all: the good, the evil and the sinners. And that’s all the justice you’ll find in this world.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Sometimes I get strange thoughts, sometimes I think Chernobyl saved me, forced me to think. My soul expanded. He.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “There’s no television. No movies. There’s one thing to do – look out the window. Well, and to pray, of course. There used to be Communism instead of God, but now there’s just God. So we pray.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I, for instance, gave lectures in which I denounced the capitalists and defended blacks in America.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “A young woman was sitting on a bench by her house, breastfeeding. We tested her breast milk and it was radioactive. The Madonna of Chernobyl.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Everyone found a justification for themselves, an explanation. I experimented on myself. And basically I found out that the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally. Zoya.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful.”
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!”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Any little knot, that was already a wound on him. I clipped my nails down till they bled so I wouldn’t accidentally cut him. None of the nurses could approach him; if they needed anything they’d call me. And.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I was in Afghanistan too. It was easier there. They just shot you.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Pretty soon, I’ll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that’s left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Well, I admit it. I had the greatest respect for the Afghan people, even while I was shooting and killing them. I still do. You could even say I love them. I like their songs and prayers, as peaceful and timeless as their mountains.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “They asked all sorts of questions, but one really cut into my memory. This boy, stammering and blushing, you could tell he was one of the quiet ones, asked: “Why couldn’t anyone help the animals?” This was already a person from the future. I couldn’t answer that question. Our art is all about the sufferings and loves of people, but not of everything living. We don’t descend to their level: animals, plants, that other world. And with Chernobyl man just waved his hand at everything.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “You’re young. Why are you doing this? That’s not a person anymore, that’s a nuclear reactor. You’ll just burn together.” I was like a dog, running after them. I’d stand for hours at their doors, begging and pleading. And then they’d say: “All right! The hell with you! You’re not normal!”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “They, our parents, lived through a great catastrophe, and we needed to live through it, too. Otherwise we’d never become real people. That’s how we’re made. If we just work each day and eat well – that would be strange and intolerable! We.”
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.”
Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Humanities” started sounding like a disease.”
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...”
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.”
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