Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakovwas a Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 May 1891
CountryRussian Federation
cities darkness covered
The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator...
heat said immortal
You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!
fearless made manage
the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
knives knowing long
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…
struggle water needs
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.
visitors different impressed
Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
mean said masters
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.
regret heart two
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.
evil giving shadow
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?
worry skins naked
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
children long once-upon-a-time
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...
loss world reason
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
educational institutions educated
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
real liars cutting
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!