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

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

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov

I have a trend of my own.
Andrei Platonov

I lived and languished.
Andrei Platonov

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

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

If they don't think, people act senselessly.
Andrei Platonov


My body gets weak without truth.
Andrei Platonov

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

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

We hate our squalor.
Andrei Platonov

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

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

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Andrei Platonov