Andrei Platonov Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Andrei Platonov
In place of hope all that remained to him was endurance, and somewhere beyond the long sequence of nights, beyond the orchards that faded, blossomed, and perished once more, beyond all the people he had encountered and who had then passed on into the past, there existed his fated day-when he would have to take to his bed, turn his face to the wall, and pass away without being able to cry — Andrei Platonov
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? — Andrei Platonov
What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act? — Andrei Platonov
Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark. — Andrei Platonov
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world. — Andrei Platonov
He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn't believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger's heart. — Andrei Platonov
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head. — Andrei Platonov
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov
I have a trend of my own. — Andrei Platonov
People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals. — Andrei Platonov
Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself. — Andrei Platonov
Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived. — Andrei Platonov
We hate our squalor. — Andrei Platonov
Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore. — Andrei Platonov
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
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it. — Andrei Platonov
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive. — Andrei Platonov
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow? — Andrei Platonov
He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans. — Andrei Platonov
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. — Andrei Platonov
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. — Andrei Platonov
Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom. — Andrei Platonov
If they don't think, people act senselessly. — Andrei Platonov
At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. — Andrei Platonov
Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something? — Andrei Platonov
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head. — Andrei Platonov