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!

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

We hate our squalor.

My body gets weak without truth.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

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

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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

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