Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

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• "We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
• Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
• Literature has become my life.
• 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…
• Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took…
• No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
• 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…
• In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So how, may I…
• Remove the document—and you remove the man.
• Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
• Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
• 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…
• 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…
• just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
• If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
• 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…
• There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
• Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its…
• Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
• he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

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