Zitate und Sprüche von Svetlana Alexievich

All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

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