Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes - Page 3

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• I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Believe, Men, Mad

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.209, Penguin

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• Literature has become my life.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Literature

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

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• Difficult folk, these women!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Women, Difficult, Folks

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.170, Penguin

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• Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Real, Liars, Cutting

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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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• My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Moving, Writing, Progress

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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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• What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Girl, Party, Other Worlds

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

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• Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Different, Visitors, Variety

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Evil Apartment', B/O, 1967.

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• Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Vices, Philosopher, Cowardice

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.231, Penguin

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• He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Clever, Smart, People

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Duel Between the Professor and the Poet', B/O, 1967.

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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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• Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mean, Rotten, Lasts

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'Hapless Visitors', P/V, 1967.

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• You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mean, Masters, Said

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• You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Behemoth, Said, Immortal

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• This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Girl, Boys, Years

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• The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mother, Cat, Dust

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

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• I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Passion, People, Looks

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• Manuscripts do not burn.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Manuscripts

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1985). “Heart of a Dog”

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• Cowardice is the greatest sin.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Sin, Cowardice

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• A dog's spirit dies hard.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Dog, Spirit, Dies

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• No documents, no person.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Persons, Documents

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

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• I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Writing, Night, Balls

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• It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Firsts, Poet, Berlioz

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.25, Penguin

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• Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Animal, Sitting

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