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Andrei Platonov
Russian
Writer
About the author
We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
We hate our squalor.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Hate
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Will
#Thinking
#Act
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Nothing
#Thinking
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Truth
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Will
#World
#Soul
#Ugliness
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Will
#Happiness
#Meaning
#Materialism
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#War
#Man
#Woman
#Birth
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Time
#Day
#Night
#Russia
#Dogs
#Revolution
If they don't think, people act senselessly.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#People
#Act
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Nothing
#World
#Sorrow
My body gets weak without truth.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Truth
#Body
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,
Russian
Writer
#Kids
#Forget
#Power
#Sense
#Mothers
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Want
#Word
I lived and languished.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
I have a trend of my own.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
Andrei Platonov,
Russian
Writer
#Home
#Country
#Future
#Class