Top 160 Svetlana Alexievich Quotes (2024 Update)
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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.”

151. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

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

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

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

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see.”

155. “Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see.”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “Instead of a Motherland, we live in a huge supermarket. If this is freedom, I don’t need it. To hell with it!”

156. “Instead of a Motherland, we live in a huge supermarket. If this is freedom, I don’t need it. To hell with it!”

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Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “A door that can only be opened with love.”

157. “A door that can only be opened with love.”

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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?”

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

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

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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.”

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

161. “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: “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.”

162. “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: “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.”

163. “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: “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.”

164. “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: “There’s a Ukrainian woman sells big red apples at the market. She was touting her wares: ‘Come and get them! Apples from Chernobyl!’ Someone told her, ‘Don’t advertise the fact they’re from Chernobyl, love. No one will buy them.’ ‘Don’t you believe it! They’re selling well! People buy them for their mother-in-law or their boss!”

165. “There’s a Ukrainian woman sells big red apples at the market. She was touting her wares: ‘Come and get them! Apples from Chernobyl!’ Someone told her, ‘Don’t advertise the fact they’re from Chernobyl, love. No one will buy them.’ ‘Don’t you believe it! They’re selling well! People buy them for their mother-in-law or their boss!”

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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.”

166. “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: “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.”

167. “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.”

168. “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: “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.”

169. “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.”

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

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

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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.”

171. “People aren’t heroes. We’re all – peddlers of the apocalypse. Big and small. I have these images in my mind, these pictures.”

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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.”

172. “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.”

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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.”

173. “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.”

174. “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: “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.”

175. “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.”

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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.”

176. “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: “A communist is someone who’s read Marx, an anticommunist is someone who’s understood him.”

177. “A communist is someone who’s read Marx, an anticommunist is someone who’s understood him.”

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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.”

178. “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.”

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

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

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