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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.”

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

152. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

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154. “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: “We’re afraid of everything. We’re afraid for our children, and for our grandchildren, who don’t exist yet. They don’t exist, and we’re already afraid. People smile less, they sing less at holidays. The landscape changes, because instead of fields the forest rises up again, but the national character changes too. Everyone’s depressed. It’s a feeling of doom. Chernobyl is a metaphor, a symbol. And it’s changed our everyday life, and our thinking.”

155. “We’re afraid of everything. We’re afraid for our children, and for our grandchildren, who don’t exist yet. They don’t exist, and we’re already afraid. People smile less, they sing less at holidays. The landscape changes, because instead of fields the forest rises up again, but the national character changes too. Everyone’s depressed. It’s a feeling of doom. Chernobyl is a metaphor, a symbol. And it’s changed our everyday life, and our thinking.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich Quote: “People ask me: “Why don’t you take photos in color? In color!” But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.”

156. “People ask me: “Why don’t you take photos in color? In color!” But Chernobyl: literally it means black event. There are no other colors there.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

158. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

160. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.’”

161. “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.’”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

163. “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.”

164. “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!”

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

166. “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?”

167. “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?”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

172. “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.”

173. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

174. “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.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

175. “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

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.”

176. “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

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.”

177. “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

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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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.”

179. “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

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