Andrei Platonov Quotes

• I have a trend of my own.

  Andrei Platonov

  Trends, My Own

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• Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

  Andrei Platonov

  Men, World, Busy

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• Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

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  Alive, Ashamed, Feels

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• If they don't think, people act senselessly.

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  Thinking, People, Ifs

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• From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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  Soul, World, Grows

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• What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

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  Thinking, What If, Carried Away

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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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  Thinking, Feelings, Done

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• Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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  Sorrow, Doe, World

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• My body gets weak without truth.

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  Glitter, Body, Weak

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• We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

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  Dust, Feels, Left

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• Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

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  Dark, Ends, Objects

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

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  Thinking

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• Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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  Materialism

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• I lived and languished.

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• The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

  Andrei Platonov

  Country, Home, Class

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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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  War, Men, Birth

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• At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

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  Dog, Night, Russia

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• I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

  Andrei Platonov

  Soldier, Want, Arms

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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!

  Andrei Platonov

  Mother, Kids, Forget

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