Top 33 Platonov Quotes

#1. My body gets weak without truth.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #512471
#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.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #512750
#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.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #520781
#4. At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #561997
#5. The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #649174
#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.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #662425
#7. Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

Joseph Brodsky

Platonov Quotes #693081
#8. We hate our squalor.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #720754
#9. Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #796833
#10. I have a trend of my own.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #798899
#11. Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

Viacheslav Platonov

Platonov Quotes #834766
#12. I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #905029
#13. When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #962382
#14. 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.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #964155
#15. Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #969924
#16. 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?

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1087541
#17. Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.

Viacheslav Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1090779
#18. We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1128374
#19. 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

Platonov Quotes #1177286
#20. In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ... , must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

Viacheslav Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1210830
#21. I lived and languished.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1224148
#22. Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1268730
#23. What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1293710
#24. O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1378038
#25. 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.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1397881
#26. Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

Viacheslav Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1400634
#27. Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1520883
#28. If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1620912
#29. From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1673186
#30. For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.

Viacheslav Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1802348
#31. A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1811666
#32. Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1829570
#33. Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

Platonov Quotes #1848660

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