Andrei Platonov

Writer

Russian Empire

1899 - 1951

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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!
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Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
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We hate our squalor.
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My body gets weak without truth.
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From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
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When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
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What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
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At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
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