A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head.
About 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 Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agricultureand other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental,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.
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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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