"We live in an environment of banality. For most people, that’s enough. But how do you get through?..."

“We live in an environment of banality. For most people, that’s enough. But how do you get through? How do you rip off that coating of banality? You have to make people descend into the depths of themselves.”

- Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of 2015′s Nobel Prize in Literature, cited by Masha Gessen



from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/131877146562