Andrei Platonov Quotes

I have a trend of my own.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

My body gets weak without truth.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

I lived and languished.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?