No documents, no person.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

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!

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

I think I know the delights of freedom

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

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