Mikhail Bulgakov quotes

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves. (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Manuscripts don't burn. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes-never! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
No documents, no person. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol! (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Foreign visitors... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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? View quote
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked... View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you. View quote
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He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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. View quote
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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)
The hope that she might regain her happiness made her fearless. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
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! View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov