Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You’ll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour—white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
No one’s fate is of any interest to you except your own.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You’re asked an unexpected question, you don’t even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
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!
—Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
—Mikhail Bulgakov
What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
—Mikhail Bulgakov
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