"Love leaped out in front of us like……" — Mikhail Bulgakov
"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…"
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60 Quotes by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
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Literature has become my life.
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Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where…
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
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Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar…
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Remove the document—and you remove the man.
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Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
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Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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