Andrei Platonov Quotes

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.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I have a trend of my own.

I lived and languished.

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.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.