Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

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People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.

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We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

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Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil.

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America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.

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Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

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We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

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All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.

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I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things.

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The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there.

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Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone.

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I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.

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