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• ‟ I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

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• ‟ What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

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• ‟ I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I am drawn to that small space called a human being... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens.

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• ‟ I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

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• ‟ All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

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• ‟ My wish is to humanize history.

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