Andrei Platonov Quotes

I have a trend of my own.

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

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

My body gets weak without truth.

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

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

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived.

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

I lived and languished.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

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

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

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

We hate our squalor.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

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

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

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