Svetlana Alliluyeva Quotes

#1. 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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#2. The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

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#3. It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

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#4. All large cities are alike at night.

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#5. 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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#6. God grants an easy death only to the just.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. You have only one friend in this world, yourself.

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#12. 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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#13. History is a stern judge.

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#14. Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment ... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new ...

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#15. 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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#16. Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

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#17. As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

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#18. When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

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