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

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods s…

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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…

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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 he…

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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 tha…

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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

- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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

- Svetlana Alliluyeva