Quotes from Andrei Platonov

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

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

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

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

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

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

My body gets weak without truth.

I have a trend of my own.

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

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

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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