Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Is there anything more frightening than people? — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic. — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
At that time my notions of nuclear power were utterly idyllic. At school and at the university we'd been taught that thi — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussian — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
It's certainly true that Chernobyl, while an accident in the sense that no one intentionally set it off, was also the de — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
We were told that we had to win. Against whom? The atom? Physics? The universe? Victory is not an event for us, but a pr — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, the — Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster