Quotes by Svetlana Alliluyeva - Page 1

History is a stern judge.
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History
Decision
Judging
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all large cities are alike at night.
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Cities
Large Cities
Night
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God grants an easy death only to the just.
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Easy
Grants
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Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.
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Assistance
Destiny
Halfway
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When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.
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Impossible
Reality
Sight
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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
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Government
Human Nature
Regimes
World
Rules
Nature World Human
Governments
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The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
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Letters
Thinking Of You
Writing
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As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
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Kindness
Belief
Half
Human Kindness
People
Soviet
Result
Rule
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I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.
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People
Shadow
Tree
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Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.
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Alive
Earth
Names
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It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
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Regimes
Suicide
World
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Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.
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Air
Rhythm Of Life
Russia
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For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.
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Father
Russia
Spiritual
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A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.
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Born
Ears
Musical
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The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.
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Fire
Religious
Water
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Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation.
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Ambition
Fire
Passion
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Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.
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Mean
Powerful
Religious
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On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!
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Hatred
Swings
White
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Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.
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Bible
Gratitude
Powerful
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Why did Americans smile so often? Was it out of politeness or because of a gay disposition? Whatever it was, I for one had never been spoiled with smiles. I found it very pleasant! ... I was beginning to understand that with Americans smiling was, as with healthy infants, a natural need. And my reaction was to respond in the same way.
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Gay
Healthy
United States
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He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.
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War
Eye
Hands
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Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.
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Nature
Beautiful
Meaningful
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The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.
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Azaleas
Country
Spring
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