Childhood memories Quote by 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 lived and languished.

— Andrei Platonov

“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

— Andrei Platonov

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

— 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…

— Andrei Platonov

We hate our squalor.

— Andrei Platonov

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

— Andrei Platonov

My body gets weak without truth.

— Andrei Platonov

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

— 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

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

— Andrei Platonov

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

— Andrei Platonov