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. ”