“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… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?” — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But… — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
