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Politics should come from human stories. ”
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ”
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. ”
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness. ”
The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. ”
I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. ”
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. ”
Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. ”
I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings. ”
Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. ”