Svetlana Alexievich. (№ 406175)

I am writing, writing down contemporary, current history. Living voices, living destinies. Before they become history, they are still someone's pain, someone's cry, someone's victim or crime. Countless times I ask myself the question: how to get through evil without increasing evil in the world, especially now, when evil takes on some cosmic dimensions? Before every new book, I ask myself this. This is my burden. And my destiny.