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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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You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Mikhail Bulgakov

Heat, Said, Immortal

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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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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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the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

Mikhail Bulgakov

Fearless, Made, Manage

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Manuscripts don't burn.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Manuscripts

Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.210, Penguin

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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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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Speak, Truth Is, Easy

Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.37, Penguin

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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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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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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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Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Giving, Stronger, Offers

Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.206, Penguin

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

Mikhail Bulgakov

Degrees, Lasts, Firsts

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

Mikhail Bulgakov

Touching, Fixing, Trouble

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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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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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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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Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Mikhail Bulgakov

Submit, Constraints, Compelled

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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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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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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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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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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust

Mikhail Bulgakov

Sweet, Heart, Sadness

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Born: May 15, 1891
Died: March 10, 1940
Occupation: Writer
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