Andrei Platonov Quotes & Sayings

#1. My body gets weak without truth.

#2. Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom.

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#3. Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived.

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

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

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#6. People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals.

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#7. We hate our squalor.

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#8. Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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#9. I have a trend of my own.

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

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

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#12. Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.

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#13. Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

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#14. Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

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

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

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#17. I lived and languished.

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#18. Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

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

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#20. O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

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#21. He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.

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