Andrei Platonov Quotations

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

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

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

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

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

My body gets weak without truth.

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