“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… — 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