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• Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Children, Long, Once Upon A Time

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Flight"), 1967.

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• Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Animal, Suggestions

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “Heart of a Dog”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Wine, Men, Games

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• Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Talking, Hallucinations

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• Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Jobs, Men, Old Things

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• The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, Giving, Soul

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book One, Chapter "Nikanor Ivanovich's Dream"), 1967.

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• I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Educational, Institutions, Educated

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• For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Drunk, Reason

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master', P/V, 1967.

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• How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Regret, Heart, Two

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.426, Random House

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• Remove the document—and you remove the man.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Bureaucracy, Remove

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2010). “The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.273, Random House

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• No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Fate, Interest

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• Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Touching, Fixing, Trouble

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• There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Degrees, Lasts, Firsts

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• just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Allies, Murderer, Fronts

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• You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Evil, Giving, Shadow

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2017). “The Master and Margarita”, p.258, Lulu.com

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• Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Queens, Blood, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.201, Penguin

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• Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Men, Years, Tomorrow

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Party, Cat, Glasses

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.74, Penguin

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• To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Struggle, Water, Would Be

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1991). “Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Life in Letters and Diaries”, Harvill Press

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• If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Dog, Vices, Guilty

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Time to Go! Time to Go!"), 1967.

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• The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, Avid, Giving

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book Two in 'The Burial', B/O, 1967.

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• Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Worry, Skins, Naked

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• Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Husband, Interesting, Horror

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• The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cities, Darkness, Covered

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• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Knives, Knowing, Long

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.112, Penguin

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