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I had very high expectations of this book and I was not disappointed. Secondhand Time is a collection of interviews with ordinary people from the former Soviet Union conducted by Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich between 1991 and 2012. The au
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“whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.”
― The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
― The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
“Russian novels don't teach you how to become successful.”
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
― Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― Vertigo
― Vertigo
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