Quotes by Andrei Platonov

• We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
• When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
• Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
• From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
• Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
• 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.
• Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
• My body gets weak without truth.
• If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
• I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
• I lived and languished.
• I have a trend of my own.
• The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.