"The Foundation Pit" Quotes
"The Foundation Pit" by Andrei Platonov is a stark, allegorical novel depicting the grim realities and ideological struggles of Soviet collectivization through the story of workers digging a foundation pit for a communal housing project.
fiction | 141 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
They will eat the bread of your labor, and you will have only the crumbs of life.
The world is a pit, and the foundation of the pit is human suffering.
We are all buried in this pit, and there is no way out.
The pit is bottomless, and we keep sinking deeper and deeper.
We dig and dig, but the pit only grows bigger.
In this pit, dreams turn into nightmares and hope turns into despair.
The pit devours everything: dreams, hopes, and even life itself.
The pit is an abyss that swallows our humanity.
We are prisoners of the pit, condemned to a lifetime of suffering.
The pit is a metaphor for the oppressive system that keeps us chained.
