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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.
- Grew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the countryside.
- Love
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I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is what brings us into this world.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020