Happy people are not evil Bulgakov. Quotes from works

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Bulgakov tried to write at the age of 25 and, fortunately, could not stop. We call him the most mystical writer and a man who fiercely fought against the Soviet regime, albeit in his works. Not accepting the art of socialist realism, five-year plans and camps, he wrote for himself and for his grandchildren, wrote, as they say, on the table.

His novels have long been sorted into quotes, and today we have collected 25 of the most significant of them about truth, people, love and life.

Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
Happiness is like health: when it is there, you do not notice it.
The second freshness - that's nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first, it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is of the second freshness, then this means that it is rotten!
The one who is in no hurry anywhere succeeds everywhere.
Only through suffering does truth come... That's right, be calm! But for the knowledge of the truth neither money is paid nor rations are given. Sad but true.
There are only two forces in the world: dollars and literature.
There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.
The writer will always be in opposition to politics as long as politics itself is in opposition to culture.
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!
Manuscripts do not burn.
Do you judge by the costume? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and a very big one at that.
We speak with you in different languages, as always. But the things we're talking about don't change.
Who said that there is no true, eternal love in the world? Let the liar cut out his vile tongue!
Dostoevsky is dead.
- I protest, Dostoevsky is immortal!
You know, a person without documents is strictly forbidden to exist.
The stars will remain when the shadows of our bodies and deeds do not remain on earth.
Never commit a crime, no matter who it is directed against. Live to old age with clean hands.
Fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
Revolutionary riding: you drive for an hour - you stand for two.
Only one thing is possible in Russia: Orthodox faith, autocratic power!
Understand that the tongue can hide the truth, but the eyes never!
It is enough to drive a man under the shots, and he turns into a wise wolf; in place of a very weak and in really difficult cases, an unnecessary mind grows a wise bestial instinct.
Maybe money gets in the way of being pretty. Here, for example, no one has money and everyone is nice.
Evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them.

In Kyiv on Podil, 126 years ago the Master was born. Mikhail Bulgakov lived only 48 years. Of these, there are 20 in literature. He once called himself a "hunted wolf", because he once calculated: out of 301 critical reviews of his work, there were only 3 positive ones. But his novels are adored. They have long been sorted into quotes, and we have collected 15 of the most significant.

About life:

Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!

Evil lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate those around them.

All will pass. Suffering, torment, blood, hunger and pestilence. The sword will disappear, but the stars will remain, when the shadow of our bodies and deeds will not remain on earth. There is not a single person who does not know this. So why don't we want to turn our eyes to them? Why?

It is enough to drive a man under the shots, and he turns into a wise wolf; in place of a very weak and in really difficult cases, an unnecessary mind grows a wise bestial instinct.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!

About love

The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Love jumped out in front of us, like a murderer jumping out of the ground in an alley, and hit us both at once! This is how lightning strikes, this is how a Finnish knife strikes!

Who said that there is no true, eternal Love in the world? Let the liar cut out his vile tongue!

And - imagine, at the same time, someone unforeseen, unexpected and outwardly the devil knows what he looks like, and I will like him the most.

I was tormented because it seemed to me that it was necessary to talk to her, and I was worried that I would not utter a single word, and she would leave, and I would never see her again ...

About faith, truth, good and evil

Only through suffering does truth come... That's right, be calm! But for the knowledge of the truth neither money is paid nor rations are given. Sad but true.

There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.

Would you be so kind as to think about the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?

For twenty whole years a person is engaged in some kind of business, for example, reading Roman law, and at the twenty-first - it suddenly turns out that Roman law has nothing to do with it, that he does not even understand it and does not love it, but in fact he is a subtle gardener and burns with love to flowers. This happens, presumably, from the imperfection of our social system, in which very often they fall into their place only towards the end of their lives.

Michael Bulgakov. Aphorisms and quotations of works

The best aphorisms, quotes, catch phrases and expressions of Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasyevich.

Well, give me a cigarette, you have striped trousers!

After all, you think how you can be dead. (Azazello).

Woland: Get out.
Hippo: I haven't drunk coffee yet, how am I going to leave?
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

All power is violence against people.
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Where will I eat?
(From "Heart of a Dog")

Eyes are a big thing. Like a barometer. You can see everything in someone who has a great dryness in his soul, who for no reason, for nothing, can poke the toe of his boot into the ribs, and who himself is afraid of everyone.

Yes, I give up, - said the cat, - but I give up solely because I can’t play in an atmosphere of harassment from envious people! (cat Behemoth)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick! (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Why chase in the footsteps of what is already over. (Woland).
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

There are no gentlemen here. Gentlemen, everyone is in Paris!
(From "Heart of a Dog")

The most interesting thing about this lie is that it is a lie from the first to the last word. (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

A brick will never fall on anyone's head for no reason. (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Weasel... the only way that is possible in dealing with a living being. Terror cannot do anything with an animal, at whatever stage of development it may be. This I affirmed, I affirm and I will affirm. They think in vain that terror will help them. No-sir, no-sir, it won't help, no matter what it is: white, red and even brown! Terror is completely paralyzing nervous system.

People are like people. They love money, but it has always been... Mankind loves money, no matter what it is made of, whether it is leather, paper, bronze or gold. Well, frivolous ... well, well ... ordinary people ... in general, they resemble the former ones ... the housing problem only spoiled them ...
(Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Maestro! Cut the march! (Cat)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

I'm not naughty, I'm not touching anyone, I'm fixing the stove. (cat Behemoth)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

No document, no person. (Koroviev)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Excuse me ... would I allow myself to pour vodka for a lady? It's pure alcohol! (cat Behemoth)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth. (Yeshua Ha-Nozri)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

It's nice to hear that you treat the cat so politely. For some reason, cats usually say "you", although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone. (cat Behemoth)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Manuscripts do not burn. (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

There is only one freshness - the first, it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is of the second freshness, then this means that it is rotten! (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Happiness is like health: when it is there, you do not notice it

The one who is in no hurry anywhere succeeds everywhere.
(From "Heart of a Dog")

What would your good do if there were no evil? (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

I'll be a silent hallucination. (cat Behemoth)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

…never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves! (Woland)
(From the novel "The Master and Margarita")

Dad is a forensic investigator ...
- Duck is a bad heredity!
(From "Heart of a Dog")

Family fathers! Sons! Where are you taking me?!

Bulgakov M. A. – Looking around the library, I think about my future deeds. The plots for my plays will have to be taken from Turgenev, Brockhaus, Leskov or Ostrovsky. Although the latter himself took care of the staging of the works, apparently foreseeing my fate in the early 30s.

Love surfaced before us, like a devil from a snuffbox, instantly enveloping us with mystery, invisible threads of attraction and intoxicating with a veil of eternal bliss.

Eyes are a barometer of a person and his essence. One in the soul is dried up like a vobla. What a mosquito, what a horse, what a person - he doesn’t care who he hit or shove. The second is afraid of his shadow, even his thoughts.

After tasting the first one, he was suddenly overwhelmed by an unbearable thirst. A day passed, and the lovely Italian woman, who fed the missus with soup, was delivered from the ties of unequal marriage that had weighed on her for a long time. Author - Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov

Freshness is not categorized. Sturgeon of the second freshness means that the fish is rotten, and the goods are expired and stale.

It is undeniable that a person cannot live forever - he is mortal. It's not even about mortality. It is very bad that a person is suddenly mortal. From this thesis, one can make a banal conclusion that it is not given to a person to think ahead, because a person does not know what will happen to him even tonight!

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A man fighting for his existence is capable of brilliant deeds.

Isadora Duncan can dine in the living room and operate in the bathroom. But I am not Isadora Duncan.

Explain to me, please, why it is necessary to fabricate Spinoza artificially, when any woman can give birth to him at any time. After all, Madame Lomonosov gave birth to this famous one in Kholmogory. Mankind itself takes care of this and in the evolutionary order every year stubbornly, singling out all sorts of filth from the mass, creates dozens of outstanding geniuses who adorn the globe.

Even being completely free and invisible, you still need to be at least a little prudent in enjoyment.

Happiness is like health: when it is on the face, you do not notice it.

No document, no person.

Well,

One believes, the other does not believe, but you all have the same actions: now each other's throat.

Behemoth cat, And besides, what are you expressing: lit up in the face? After all, it is not known what exactly a person has, a muzzle or a face. And, perhaps, after all, the face. So, you know, with your fists ... No, you leave that alone, and forever.

Everything will go like clockwork: first - in the evenings - singing, then pipes will burst in the toilets.

When we speak giving an account, you won't get a word of truth.

A man without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.

In the wide field of Russian literature in the USSR, I was the only literary wolf. I was advised to dye the skin. Ridiculous advice. Whether a painted wolf or a shorn wolf, he still does not look like a poodle. They treated me like a wolf. And for several years they drove me according to the rules of a literary cage in a fenced yard. I have no malice, but I am very tired.

Elephants are useful animals.

After all, you think how you can be dead.

Food is tricky. You need to be able to eat, but imagine - most people do not know how to eat at all. It is necessary not only to know what to eat, but also when and how. And what to say about it. Yes, sir. If you care about your digestion, my good advice is not to talk about Bolshevism and medicine at dinner. And - God save you - do not read Soviet newspapers before dinner. Patients who do not read newspapers feel great. Those whom I specifically forced to read the “truth” lost weight.

I believe that it is impossible to become an educated person in any educational institution. But in any well-established educational institution, one can become a disciplined person and acquire a skill that will be useful in the future, when a person outside the walls of an educational institution begins to educate himself.

Manuscripts do not burn.

After all, we want to live and fly!

For some reason, cats usually say you, although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.

The writer will always be in opposition to politics as long as politics itself is in opposition to culture.

Well, give me a cigarette, you have striped trousers!

The one who is in no hurry anywhere succeeds everywhere.

If not for poker, then your life in Moscow would be completely unbearable.

Excuse me ... would I allow myself to pour vodka for a lady? It's pure alcohol!

The second freshness - that's nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first, it is also the last.

Any power is violence against people. The time will come when there will be no power of Caesars or any other power. Man will pass into the realm of truth and justice, where no power will be needed at all.

This is what happens when a researcher, instead of walking in parallel and groping with nature, forces the question and lifts the veil: here, get Sharikov and eat him with porridge.

Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially for those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!

Nothing can be more disgusting than when the first guest who arrives is loitering, not knowing what to do, and his lawful vixen nags him in a whisper for the fact that they arrived before everyone else. Such balls should be thrown in the trash, queen.

The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Insult is a common reward for good work.

There is something evil lurking in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, table conversation. Such people are either seriously ill or secretly hate others. True, there may be exceptions.

It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth.

Manuscripts do not burn.

Bulgakov described to his wife his anguish over the production of Molière at Stanislavsky's: “Imagine that in front of your eyes Serezha (Elena's son from a previous marriage) begins to curl his ears with tongs and assures that this is how it should be, that Chekhov's daughter was also curled, and that you must love it.

You, Mikhail Afanasyevich, would have gone to the factory, would have looked ... - It is very noisy at the factory, but I am tired, ill, - answered Bulgakov. - You better send me to Nice!

Two eyes rested on Margaret's face. The right one with a golden spark at the bottom, drilling anyone to the bottom of the soul, and the left one is empty and black, sort of like a narrow needle's eye, like an exit to a bottomless well of all darkness and shadows.

The one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

What would your good do if there were no evil?

Would you be so kind as to think about the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? After all, shadows are obtained from objects and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But there are shadows from trees and from living beings. Don't you want to rip the whole globe, blowing away all the trees and all living things from it because of your fantasy of enjoying the naked light? You're stupid.

Line up, you sons of bitches, line up!

Do not ask anything from the mighty of this world, everything will be offered to you in due time.

Festive midnight is sometimes nice to delay.

For some reason, cats usually say “you”, although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.

There is no worse misfortune than deprivation of reason in the world.

A brick will never fall on anyone's head for no reason.

Remiz, - yelled the cat, - hurrah! - And then he, putting aside the primus stove, grabbed a Browning from behind his back.

After all the magic and wonders of this evening, she already guessed to whom exactly she was being taken to visit, but this did not frighten her. The hope that there she would be able to achieve the return of her happiness made her fearless.

Science does not yet know how to turn animals into people.

Who will say anything in defense of envy? This feeling of a cheesy category…

Man is mortal, and that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!

Weasel ... the only way that is possible in dealing with a living being. Terror cannot do anything with an animal, at whatever stage of development it may be. This I affirmed, I affirm and I will affirm. They think in vain that terror will help them. No-sir, no-sir, it won't help, no matter what it is: white, red and even brown! Terror completely paralyzes the nervous system. -

Smart people are smart enough to understand complicated things.

Yes, man is mortal, but that would be half the trouble. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick.

Master, Whistle, I do not argue, - Koroviev condescendingly remarked, - really whistled, but, to speak impartially, whistling is very average!

The most interesting thing about this lie is that it is a lie from the first to the last word.