Quotes from Andrei Platonov


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    Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

    Truth | Alive | Ashamed


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

    Soldier | Word | Arms


    Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

    Inside | Sorrow


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

    Thinking | Inside | Head


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

    Thinking | Act | Left


    We hate our squalor.

    Hate | Squalor


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

    Power | Forget | Mothers


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

    Time | Night | Revolution


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

    War | Woman | Birth


    From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

    Soul | Grow | Ugliness


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

    Inside | Left | Dust


    My body gets weak without truth.

    Truth | Body | Weak


    I lived and languished.

    Lived


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

    Home | Future | Class


    Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

    Happiness | Meaning


    I have a trend of my own.

    Trend


    If they don't think, people act senselessly.

    Act


       

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