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81 " Quant pot valdre la vida humana si recordem que fa poc morien milions de persones per causes no naturals? Estem plens d’odi i de prejudicis. "
― Svetlana Alexievich , Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
82 " Os intelectuais vendiam as suas bibliotecas ao desbarato. O público empobreceu, é claro, mas não era por isso que retiravam os livros de casa, não era apenas por dinheiro – os livros desiludiam. Uma desilusão completa. Já se tornava deselegante perguntar: “O que andas a ler agora?” Muita coisa mudou na vida e isso não estava nos livros. Os romances russos não ensinam a ter êxito na vida. A maneira de enriquecer… Oblomov está deitado no sofá, e os heróis de Tchékhov passam o tempo a beber chá e a queixar-se da vida… "
83 " No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom. "
84 " I'm not afraid of God. I'm afraid of man. "
― Svetlana Alexievich , Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
85 " Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!’ Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. ‘Don’t worry!’ she says. ‘They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss. "
86 " Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated this genre of actual human voices and confessions, witness evidences and documents. This is how I hear and see the world—as a chorus of individual voices and a collage of everyday details. In this way all my mental and emotional potential is realized to the full. In this way I can be simultaneously a writer, reporter, sociologist, psychologist and preacher. "
87 " Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There’s nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air. "
88 " How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with unplaited pigtails? And so that childhood would never again be called war-time childhood. "
― Svetlana Alexievich , آخر الشهود
89 " There can't be one heart for hatred and another for love. We only have one, and I always thought about how to save my heart. "
― Svetlana Alexievich , War's Unwomanly Face
90 " The most important thing is spiritual labor...Books...You can wear the same suit for twenty years, two coats are enough for a lifetime, but you can't live without Pushkin or the complete works of Gorky. "
91 " Man lives with death, but he doesn’t understand what it is. "
92 " En la vida las cosas más terribles ocurren en silencio y de manera natural. "
93 " Women’s” war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There are no heroes and incredible feats, there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. "
94 " Fear is more human than bravery, you’re scared and you’re sorry, at least for yourself, but you force your fear back into your subconscious. "
― Svetlana Alexievich , Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
95 " Se dice que en la guerra te conviertes en mitad humano, mitad animal. Totalmente cierto... No hay otra forma de sobrevivir. Si te limitas a ser humano, no hay salvación. ¡Perderás la cabeza! En la guerra uno debe recordar algo perdido dentro de sí. Algo arcano... Algo que procede de los tiempos en que el hombre no era del todo humano... "
96 " I write not about war, but about human beings in war. I write not the history of a war, but the history of feelings. I am a historian of the soul. "
97 " Solo recuerdo lo que me ocurrió a mí. Recuerdo mi guerra. En la guerra hay mucha gente a tu alrededor, pero siempre estás sola, porque ante la muerte el ser humano siempre está solo. Recuerdo esa terrible soledad. "
98 " Everyone found a justification for themselves, an explanation. I experimented on myself. And basically I found out that the frightening things in life happen quietly and naturally. Zoya "
99 " الرجال يقاتلون في الحرب، أما النساء فبعدها "
100 " Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone- the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth. "