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Quotes from The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov

1891–1940 Russia

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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!

The Master and Margarita (1967)

The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless.

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Man is mortal and, as has rightly been said, unexpectedly mortal.

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'For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.'

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It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.

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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.

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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.'

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'I do not know these good men,' replied the prisoner.

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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!'

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Ryukhin showed himself no mercy-'I don't believe in anything I've ever written!'

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Follow me reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!

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In fact, I'm beginning to fear that this confusion will go on for a long time. And all because he writes down what I said incorrectly.

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Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

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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?'

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

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Well, he who loves must share the lot of the one he loves.

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Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can!

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'What is all this? Damn me if I don't have you thrown out of here!' The beast just smiled and said: 'Damn you, I think you said? Very well!'

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'Unfortunately I cannot show it to you,' replied the master, 'because I burned it in my stove.'
'I'm sorry but I don't believe you,' said Woland. 'You can't have done. Manuscripts don't burn.'

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

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mikhail Bulgakov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.