"just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once"
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"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."
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"Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to keep talking but was asked to be quiet. "Very well, I shall be silent," he replied, "I shall be a silent hallucination."
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"But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita"
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"There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last"
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"There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason."
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"I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person."
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"Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it."
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"The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. 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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"I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier."
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"No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own."
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"The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough."
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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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"The procurator studied the new arrival with avid, and slightly fearful eyes. It was the kind of look one gives someone one has heard of and thought a lot about, and whom one is meeting for the first time."
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"To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water."
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"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"
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"You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?"
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"Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment."
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"the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless"
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"Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion."
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