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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 is life about? Two things: love and death.
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‟ I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
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‟ I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.
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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.
- Svetlana Alexievich