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The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.

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The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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When I see a garden in flower, then I believe in God for a second. But not the rest of the time

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Many greeted the truth as an enemy. And freedom as well.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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Pretty soon, I'll be decomposing into phosphorous, calcium, and so on. Who else will you find to tell you the truth? All that's left are the archives. Pieces of paper. And the truth is... I worked at an archive myself, I can tell you first hand: paper lies even more than people do.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.' 'You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.' My father also considered himself guilty. That's how they'd been trained.

Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
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Quotes is just quotes, cannot change your world if you not do think in that quotes, so just go and do anything...

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Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.

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