- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -
What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
Svetlana Alexievich
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Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.
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My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.
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I grew up in the countryside.
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Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.
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I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.
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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
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I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.
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Love is what brings us into this world.
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In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.
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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
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