Andrei Platonov's Quotes

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

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

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

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I have a trend of my own.

I lived and languished.

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!

My body gets weak without truth.

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

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

We hate our squalor.

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

If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.