Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

Novelist, Playwright

Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian writer known for his novel 'The Master and Margarita,' which explores themes of love, power, and the human spirit.

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Born
May 15, 1891
Died
March 10, 1940
Quotes
77
Rank
#524

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"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 wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you."

Regret Heart Two
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"If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it."

Dog Vices Guilty
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"For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone."

Cat Drunk Reason
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"The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies’ mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers."

Mother Cat Dust
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"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."

Queens Blood Long
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"You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents."

Mean Masters Said
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"The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator."

Cities Darkness Covered
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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."

Giving Stronger Offers
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"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"

Sweet Heart Sadness
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"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!"

Real Liars Cutting
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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?"

Believe Men Mad
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"Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?"

Men Years Tomorrow
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."

Dog Spirit Dies
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"You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!"

Behemoth Said Immortal
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"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?"

Girl Party Other Worlds
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"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!"

Vices Philosopher Cowardice
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"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."

Knives Knowing Long
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