18 Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich about War
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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.
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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.
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I build temples out of our feelings…out of our desires, our disappointments. Dreams. Out of that which was, but might slip away.
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I was happy … I was happy that I wasn't able to hate.
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My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life.
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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...
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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.
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What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ...
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I believe that in each of us there is a small piece of history. In one half a page, in another two or three. Together we write the book of time. We each call out our own truth. The nightmare of nuances.
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