255 Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich

Ama sanat, hasta birinden elde edilen serum gibi, başkalarının deneyimlerini bedeninize zerk edebilir. Çernobil, tam Dostoyevski’lik bir konu. İnsanı maruz gösterme girişimi. Ya da belki, her şey son derece basittir: Dünyaya parmak uçlarında yaklaşıp tam eşikte durmak lazımdır, kimbilir?!Bu ilahi dünyayı hayretle seyredip… O şekilde sürdürmek lazımdır yaşamı…

Ma quando vado a vedere un film di guerra, tutto mi sembra un po' falso. Lo stesso quando leggo un libro. O piuttosto, se non proprio falso non del tutto vero, non precisamente come andavano in realtà le cose.

A human face is molded over a long time. The soul is slowly traced on it. But the war quickly created its image of people. Painted its own portraits.

I build temples out of our feelings…out of our desires, our disappointments. Dreams. Out of that which was, but might slip away.

I was happy … I was happy that I wasn't able to hate.

My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life.

It's not a woman's task-to hate and to kill. Not for us...We had to persuade ourselves. To talk ourselves into it...

More than once afterward I met with these two truths that live in the same human being: one's own truth driven underground, and the common one, filled with the spirit of the time.

What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ...