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We share a communist collective memory. We're neighbors in memory. — Svetlana Alexievich

My life has always been like a change jar. It's full, then it's empty, then it's full again, then it's empty again. — Svetlana Alexievich

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic. — Svetlana Alexievich

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

When you're part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking — Svetlana Alexievich

Do you know that it can be a sin to give birth? I'd never heard those words before. Katya — Svetlana Alexievich

Our people need freedom like a monkey needs glasses. No one would know what to do with it. — Svetlana Alexievich

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

I'm not afraid of God. I'm afraid of man. — Svetlana Alexievich

Russian novels don't teach you how to become successful. — Svetlana Alexievich

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. — Svetlana Alexievich

Man lives with death, but he doesn't understand what it is. — Svetlana Alexievich

I'm a product of my time. I'm not a criminal. — Svetlana Alexievich

Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. — Svetlana Alexievich

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

The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive. — Svetlana Alexievich

What would I have been if not for perestroika? An engineer with a pathetic salary. — Svetlana Alexievich

A bottle of vodka costs as much as a coat used to. And something to snack on? Half a kilo of salami is half a month's pension. — Svetlana Alexievich

Question: Is the world as it's depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And — Svetlana Alexievich

There's something immoral, voyeuristic, about peering too closely at a person's courage in the face of danger. — Svetlana Alexievich

Why is it that seventeenand eighteen-year-olds find it easier to kill than thirty-year-olds, for example? Because they have no pity, that's why. — Svetlana Alexievich

At first we were all turned into animals. The very word "Chernobyl" is like a signal. Everyone turns their head to look at you. He's from there! That — Svetlana Alexievich

Russian can't convince another Russian of anything without obscenities. I — Svetlana Alexievich

can do without a lot of things, the only thing I can't do without is the past. [ — Svetlana Alexievich

Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left. — Svetlana Alexievich

I know full well what it means to dream. My whole childhood, I begged for a bicycle, and I never did get one. — Svetlana Alexievich

No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom. — Svetlana Alexievich

Is there anything more frightening than people? — Svetlana Alexievich

Humanities" started sounding like a disease — Svetlana Alexievich

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

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

I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father — Svetlana Alexievich

These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana — Svetlana Alexievich

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

remember my father's words: "It's possible to survive the camps, but you can't survive other people." He — Svetlana Alexievich

Everyone thought of themselves as a victim, never a willing accomplice. One — Svetlana Alexievich

For our entire history, we'd been surviving instead of living. Today, — Svetlana Alexievich

Truth is communal. — Svetlana Alexievich

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. — Svetlana Alexievich

records the lives of ideas. People don't write it, time does. Human truth is just a nail that everybody hangs their hats on. — Svetlana Alexievich

repentance, the response would be, "What do I have to repent for?" Everyone thought of — Svetlana Alexievich

you can survive without bread, but without love you're dead — Svetlana Alexievich

At first, the question was, Who's to blame? But then, when we learned more, we started thinking, What should we do? — Svetlana Alexievich

It turned out the officer was escorting the soldier home. He'd gone mad: 'He's been digging ever since we left Kabul. — Svetlana Alexievich

When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time — Svetlana Alexievich

I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to. — Svetlana Alexievich

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment. — Svetlana Alexievich

That's how it was in the beginning. We didn't just lose a town, we lost our whole lives. — Svetlana Alexievich

Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air. — Svetlana Alexievich

No one knows what's in the other world. It's better here. More familiar. — Svetlana Alexievich

isn't a hair, you can't just pull it out. And no ritual can make it stick. Why cry over it? Who — Svetlana Alexievich

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

We'll die, and then we'll become science, — Svetlana Alexievich