Quotes By Andrei Platonov

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

We hate our squalor.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

I have a trend of my own.

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

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!

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

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

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

I lived and languished.

My body gets weak without truth.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

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

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