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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
But why don't you take him with you into the light?
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace — Mikhail Bulgakov
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace — Mikhail Bulgakov
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
No documents, no person.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
In short, you sensed that she was there, Moscow, right there, around the turn, and about to heave herself upon you and engulf you.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Better not sit on a hedgehog if you're naked." ~ Russian Author Mikhail Bulgakov ~ The White Guard 1925
— T.C. Donivan
Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
A dog's spirit dies hard.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia
— Mikhail Bulgakov
No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
— Mikhail Bulgakov
No ID, no person
— Mikhail Bulgakov
He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
She had a passion for anyone who did something top-notch.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Foreign visitors ... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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
Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Manuscripts do not burn.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Snow, the Dnieper ... there's no more beautiful city in the world than Kiev.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
He who never hurries is always on time.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well? ... "
— Mikhail Bulgakov
And a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator ...
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? Chapter 2
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Have just been run over by tram-car at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three pm come. Berlioz.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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
Remove the document - and you remove the man.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Literature has become my life.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I challenge you to a duel! screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Then he hung up, the scoundrel!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?
— Mikhail Bulgakov
The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
She gave a little jump and hung in the air a little way above the rug, then she slowly began to be drawn downwards and dropped ..
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Do I express my thoughts lucidly?
I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity. — Mikhail Bulgakov
I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice is the greatest sin.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
— Denise Mina
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes - never!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
It's nice to hold on to a holiday midnight a little longer than usual
— Mikhail Bulgakov
love leaped out at us like a murderer jumping out of a dark alley.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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
Am I to follow him?" the master enquired uneasily, with a touch on his reins.
"No," answered Woland, "why try to pursue what is completed? — Mikhail Bulgakov
"No," answered Woland, "why try to pursue what is completed? — Mikhail Bulgakov
One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry,' explained his host didactically. Chapter 3
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I'm a specialist in black magic
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Why try to pursue what is completed?
— Mikhail Bulgakov
I'll go to bed, forget myself in sleep.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?
— Mikhail Bulgakov