Quotes from book
The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov Original title Мастер и Маргарита (Russian, 1967)

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. A censored version was published in Moscow magazine in 1966–1967, after the writer's death. The manuscript was not published as a book until 1967, in Paris. A samizdat version circulated that included parts cut out by official censors, and these were incorporated in a 1969 version published in Frankfurt. The novel has since been published in several languages and editions.


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“Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.”

Source: The Master and Margarita

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“Why try to pursue what is completed?”

Source: The Master and Margarita

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“... said the not entirely suppressed old Ivan, rearing his head from inside the new one, although without much confidence.”

Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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“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?”

Book Two in 'The Extraction of the Master, P/V, here Woland addresses the Master about Ivan (alias "Homless")
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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“No documents, no person.”

Book Two in 'The Liberation of the Master', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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“It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.”

Book One in 'The Incident at Griboyedov', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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Mikhail Bulgakov photo
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“In fact, I'm beginning to fear that this confusion will go on for a long time. And all because he writes down what I said incorrectly.”

Book One in 'Pontius Pilate', B/O, here Yeshua is speaking to Pontius Pilate
The Master and Margarita (1967)

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Mikhail Bulgakov photo

“Foreign visitors... how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.”

Book One in 'The Evil Apartment', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)