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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.”

151. “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.”

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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.”

152. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “No one knows what’s in the other world. It’s better here. More familiar.”

153. “No one knows what’s in the other world. It’s better here. More familiar.”

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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.”

154. “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.”

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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.”

155. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Humanities” started sounding like a disease.”

156. “Humanities” started sounding like a disease.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I want to make a film, to see everything through the eyes of an animal. “What are you shooting?” people say to me. “Look around you. There’s a war on in Chechnya.” But Saint Francis preached to the birds. He spoke to them as equals. What if these birds spoke to him in their bird language, and it wasn’t he who condescended to them?”

157. “I want to make a film, to see everything through the eyes of an animal. “What are you shooting?” people say to me. “Look around you. There’s a war on in Chechnya.” But Saint Francis preached to the birds. He spoke to them as equals. What if these birds spoke to him in their bird language, and it wasn’t he who condescended to them?”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I spend most of my time crying and praying for that bookish Moscow girl who doesn’t exist any more.”

158. “I spend most of my time crying and praying for that bookish Moscow girl who doesn’t exist any more.”

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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.”

159. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I, for instance, gave lectures in which I denounced the capitalists and defended blacks in America.”

160. “I, for instance, gave lectures in which I denounced the capitalists and defended blacks in America.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “So... Well... Life went by... The only thing money can’t buy is time. Weep before God or not, you can’t buy it. That’s just the way it is.”

161. “So... Well... Life went by... The only thing money can’t buy is time. Weep before God or not, you can’t buy it. That’s just the way it is.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Els grans botxins no se’n surten sense els petits. Se’n necessiten molts per a fer la feina bruta.”

162. “Els grans botxins no se’n surten sense els petits. Se’n necessiten molts per a fer la feina bruta.”

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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.”

163. “Question: Is the world as it’s depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russians need “blacks” so they can feel “white.” So they have someone to look down on.”

164. “Russians need “blacks” so they can feel “white.” So they have someone to look down on.”

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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.”

165. “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.”

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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.”

166. “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.”

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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.”

167. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad.”

168. “Son demasiados los casos en que las palabras nos alejaron de la verdad.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People who’ve been through that kind of humiliation together, or who’ve seen what people can be like, at the bottom, run from one another. There’s something I felt in Chernobyl, something I understood that I don’t really want to talk about. About the fact, for example, that all our humanistic ideas are relative. In an extreme situation, people don’t behave the way you read about in books. Sooner the other way around. People aren’t heroes.“ – Sergei Gurin.”

169. “People who’ve been through that kind of humiliation together, or who’ve seen what people can be like, at the bottom, run from one another. There’s something I felt in Chernobyl, something I understood that I don’t really want to talk about. About the fact, for example, that all our humanistic ideas are relative. In an extreme situation, people don’t behave the way you read about in books. Sooner the other way around. People aren’t heroes.“ – Sergei Gurin.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I got as far as Berlin. I put my signature on the Reichstag: “I, Sofya Kuntsevich, came here to kill war.”

170. “I got as far as Berlin. I put my signature on the Reichstag: “I, Sofya Kuntsevich, came here to kill war.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I accepted the official line so completely that even now, after all I’ve read and heard, I still have a minute hope that our lives weren’t entirely wasted. It’s the self-preservation instinct at work.”

171. “I accepted the official line so completely that even now, after all I’ve read and heard, I still have a minute hope that our lives weren’t entirely wasted. It’s the self-preservation instinct at work.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “How much can we value human life when we know that not long ago people had died by the millions? We’re full of hatred and superstitions. All of us come from the land of the gulag and harrowing war.”

172. “How much can we value human life when we know that not long ago people had died by the millions? We’re full of hatred and superstitions. All of us come from the land of the gulag and harrowing war.”

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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.”

173. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful.”

174. “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful.”

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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.”

175. “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.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “We share a communist collective memory. We’re neighbors in memory.”

176. “We share a communist collective memory. We’re neighbors in memory.”

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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...”

177. “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...”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Russian can’t convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I.”

178. “Russian can’t convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I’m afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.”

179. “I’m afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “I guess that’s how you experience your own death, from a distance.”

180. “I guess that’s how you experience your own death, from a distance.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Sometimes I think it’d be better if you didn’t write about us. Then people wouldn’t be so afraid. No one talks about cancer in the home of a person who’s sick with it. And if someone is in jail with a life sentence, no one mentions that, either.”

181. “Sometimes I think it’d be better if you didn’t write about us. Then people wouldn’t be so afraid. No one talks about cancer in the home of a person who’s sick with it. And if someone is in jail with a life sentence, no one mentions that, either.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Once a week, whoever had really excelled at dirt-digging was presented with a certificate of merit in front of all of us, on parade. Top Radioactive Earth-Shoveller of the USSR. How mad was that?”

182. “Once a week, whoever had really excelled at dirt-digging was presented with a certificate of merit in front of all of us, on parade. Top Radioactive Earth-Shoveller of the USSR. How mad was that?”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Mankind is good, but the people are mean. Some.”

183. “Mankind is good, but the people are mean. Some.”

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