255 Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich

El passat, per a alguns, és una maleta plena de carn humana i una bóta plena de sang; per a d’altres, una gran època…

I krig eldes menneskets sjel. Etter krigen var jeg aldri ung mer.

I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.

Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg.

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.