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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!

But why don't you take him with you into the light?
He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

No documents, no person.

In short, you sensed that she was there, Moscow, right there, around the turn, and about to heave herself upon you and engulf you.

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

Once more and for the last time, the moon flashed above and broke into pieces, and then everything went black.

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

A dog's spirit dies hard.

There's only one degree of freshness - the first, which makes it also the last

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

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

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

Just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

No ID, no person

He was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

She had a passion for anyone who did something top-notch.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.

One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry,' explained his host didactically. Chapter 3

Remove the document - and you remove the man.

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

Have just been run over by tram-car at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three pm come. Berlioz.

Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away? Chapter 2

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

And a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well? ... "

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

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

He who never hurries is always on time.

His swearing is methodical, continuous, and apparently entirely senseless.

Snow, the Dnieper ... there's no more beautiful city in the world than Kiev.

Manuscripts do not burn.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

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!

The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly

Literature has become my life.

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!

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

She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.

I challenge you to a duel! screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair! Chapter 2

There is absolutely no necessity to learn how to read; meat smells a mile off, anyway.

The time had come to act, to drink the bitter cup of responsibility.

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

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Then he hung up, the scoundrel!

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?

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!

The hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

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 ..

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes - never!

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

It's nice to hold on to a holiday midnight a little longer than usual

love leaped out at us like a murderer jumping out of a dark alley.

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

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?

Do I express my thoughts lucidly?
I think I do.
What is my life? An absurdity.

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

I'm a specialist in black magic

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies!

Why try to pursue what is completed?

I'll go to bed, forget myself in sleep.

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

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.

Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.