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A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

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

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

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

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

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

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

My body gets weak without truth.

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

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

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

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

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

What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.