Andrei Platonov

Busy remaking the world man forgot to remake himself.

I lived and languished.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

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

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

We hate our squalor.

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

My body gets weak without truth.

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

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

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

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

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

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

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

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

I have a trend of my own.