Andrei Platonov

Russian author

Andrei Platonovich Platonovwas a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agricultureand other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism which was not in line with the dominant socialist realism doctrine.

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About the Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonovich Platonovwas a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agricultureand other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism which was not in line with the dominant socialist realism doctrine. His famous works include the novels Chevengurand The Foundation Pit (1930).

17 Quotes by Andrei Platonov

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    I have a trend of my own.

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

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    Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

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    My body gets weak without truth.

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    I lived and languished.

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

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    From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

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    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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    Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

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

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    We hate our squalor.

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    We can’t feel anything – all that’s left inside us is dust.

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    Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

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    If they don’t think, people act senselessly.

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