Svetlana Alexievich Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by Svetlana Alexievich
Svetlana Alexievich Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
People aren't heroes. We're all - peddlers of the apocalypse. Big and small. I have these images in my mind, these pictures.
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
Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see
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.
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.
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.
Question: Is the world as it's depicted in words the real world? Words stand between the person and his soul. And
There's something immoral, voyeuristic, about peering too closely at a person's courage in the face of danger.
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.
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
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.
I know full well what it means to dream. My whole childhood, I begged for a bicycle, and I never did get one.
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.
Instead of a Motherland, we live in a huge supermarket. If this is freedom, I don't need it. To hell with it!
I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father
These people had already seen what for everyone else is still unknown. I felt like I was recording the future. Svetlana
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.
remember my father's words: "It's possible to survive the camps, but you can't survive other people." He
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.
records the lives of ideas. People don't write it, time does. Human truth is just a nail that everybody hangs their hats on.
At first, the question was, Who's to blame? But then, when we learned more, we started thinking, What should we do?
It turned out the officer was escorting the soldier home. He'd gone mad: 'He's been digging ever since we left Kabul.
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.
Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.