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Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

born 1948 Belarus

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born May 31, 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist and prose writer. She is the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Nobel laureates

Also known as: Svetlana Aleksievich

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War remains, as it always has been, one of the chief human mysteries.

Is there anything more frightening than people?

Voices from Chernobyl (2005)

What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

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.

Voices from Chernobyl (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Svetlana Alexievich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.