Quotes from Mikhail Bulgakov

Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?

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 too 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.

The movies are a woman's only solace in life.

How can we help Mikhail Alexandrovich? By staying hungry? But us, you know, we're alive!

We are speaking different languages, as always, but that doesn't change the things we talk about.

Unfortunately, I cannot do that,' replied the master, 'because I burned it in the stove.' 'Forgive me, but I don't believe you,' Woland replied, 'that cannot be: manuscripts don't burn.

But The Master and Margarita is true to the broader sense of the novel as a freely developing form embodied in the works of Dostoevsky and Gogol, of Swift and Sterne, of Cervantes, Rabelais and Apuleius.

The lodger told Anfisa, Anna Frantsevna's long-time and devoted housekeeper, to say, in case he received any telephone calls, that he would be back in ten minutes, and left together with the proper, white-gloved policeman. He not only did not come back in ten minutes, but never came back at all.

The only thing he said was that among human vices he considered cowardice one of the first.'7

Manuscripts don't burn

Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried for a long time, and then she became wicked . . .

ButelkÄ™ mineralnej – poprosiÅ' Berlioz. -Mineralnej nie ma – odpowiedziaÅ'a kobieta w budce i z niejasnych powodów obraziÅ'a siÄ™.

Ka?dy z literatów pomyÅ›laÅ' co innego. Berlioz: "Nie, to jednak cudzoziemiec!", a Bezdomny: "O, cholera!...".

Once there was a certain lady . . . And she had no children, and generally no happiness either. And so first she cried for a long time, and then she became wicked . . .

Riuchin sapaÅ' ci??ko, czerwony byÅ' jak burak i myÅ›laÅ' tylko o jednym – ?e oto wyhodowaÅ' ?mijÄ™ na wÅ'asnym Å'onie, zajÄ…Å' siÄ™ serdecznie czÅ'owiekiem, który zdemaskowaÅ' siÄ™ jako podstÄ™pny wróg. A co najgorsze, Riuchin byÅ' teraz caÅ'kowicie bezradny – nie bÄ™dzie siÄ™ przecie? wykÅ'ócaÅ' z wariatem!

Tego jeszcze brakowaÅ'o!" - i od tej chwili myÅ›li Stiopy pobiegÅ'y dwutorowo, ale, jak to siÄ™ zwykle dzieje w chwili katastrofy, w jednym kierunku i w ogóle diabli wiedzÄ… dokÄ…d.

De ce s? alergi pe urmele a ceva ce e deja încheiat?

Jak to si? mog?o sta?? - machinalnie zapyta?a Ma?gorzata, wspominaj?c jednocze?nie szepty w trolejbusie. -A diabli wiedz? jak! - nonszalancko odpowiedzia? rudy.

Pannica, grasejuj?c, od?piewa?a s?odko, aczkolwiek z chrypk? w g?osie, co? niezupe?nie zrozumia?ego, ale s?dz?c po twarzach kobiet na widowni, musia?o to by? co? nader n?c?cego: -Guerlain, Mitsuko, Narcisse Noir, Chanel numer pi??, suknie wieczorowe, suknie koktajlowe...

Messer – odparÅ' Azazello – spieszÄ™ donie??, ?e mamy dwoje obcych: jakÄ…Å› piÄ™knÄ… dziewczynÄ™, która zanudza bÅ'aganiami, ?eby jÄ… pozostawiono przy jej pani, a wraz z niÄ…, przepraszam za wyra?enie, przybyÅ' jej wieprz.

No, what's the use, there's no leaving a place like this for any amount of freedom, thought the dog sniffing dismally, I've got used to it. I'm a gentleman's dog, an intelligent being, acquired a taste for the good things of life. And what is freedom? Smoke, mirage, fiction... the raving of those unhappy-democrats...

It happens that way when a man strives to become the centre of attention, to bring sensational news somewhere.

Zupe?nie jasne – potwierdzi? kot, zapominaj?c, ?e mia? by? milcz?c? halucynacj?.

Nieustannie trzeba przesuwa? wojska, czyta? donosy i skargi, a po?owa z nich to donosy i skargi na mnie!