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Manuscripts don't burn.
Manuscripts do not burn.
No documents, no person.
A dog's spirit dies hard.
Difficult folk, these women!
Cowardice is the greatest sin.
Literature has become my life.
Why try to pursue what is completed?
He who never hurries is always on time.
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
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
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!
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!
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.
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
Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
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.
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!
I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.
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.
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?
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.
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.