Andrei Platonov quotes
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“I lived and languished.”
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“If they don't think, people act senselessly.”
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“Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.”
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“Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”
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“Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”
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“Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.”
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“When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.”
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“The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.”
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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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“I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.”
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“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”
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“From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.”
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“Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?”
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“At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.”
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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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“We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.”
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“What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?”
-- Andrei Platonov
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