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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov is a Russian writer, playwright, theater director and actor. Author of novels, novellas and short stories, many feuilletons, plays, dramatizations, film scripts, opera librettos. The novel that brought the writer world fame, “The Master and Margarita,” was filmed several times both in Russia and in other countries.
Quotes from Bulgakov
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection of quotes from the writer Mikhail Bulgakov .
Everything is as it should be: with evil spirits, the housing problem, second-fresh sturgeon, unburnable manuscripts...
Quotes are summarized by topic: about yourself, life, post-revolutionary life, life ethics, human manifestations, food and nutrition, people, writing and writers, women and men, Sharikov, truth and lies, love, evil spirits, education, money, eyes, happiness, death, Russia.
About Me
Now I can hear my thoughts soaring within me, and I believe that I am immeasurably stronger as a writer than anyone I know. But in such conditions as now, I may be lost.
Theater for me is pleasure, peace, entertainment, in a word, anything except a means to acquire a new good neurasthenia.
Black and mystical colors (I am a mystical writer), which depict the countless deformities of our life, the poison with which my language is saturated, deep skepticism regarding the revolutionary process taking place in my backward country, and the contrast to it with the beloved and Great Evolution... a persistent depiction of the Russian intelligentsia as the best layer in our country...
It’s not just the Moscow Art Theater, I’m ready to sell myself to the devil for an apartment.
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 wolf is dyed or shorn, it still does not look like a poodle. They treated me like a wolf. And for several years they persecuted me according to the rules of a literary cage in a fenced yard. I have no malice, but I am very tired...
Not being able to write is tantamount to being buried alive for me.
About life
Life is not unraveled by the mind, but only the experienced mystery of world existence, that primordial light in which both consciousness and discrimination are born.
No matter what pessimists say, the earth is still absolutely beautiful, and under the moon it is simply unique.
The present is before our eyes. It is such that you want to close your eyes.
Everything will be right - the world is built on this.
Why do you need the whole world if you don’t want to give it to anyone?
You know, a person without documents is strictly prohibited from existing.
No document, no person.
All power is violence against people.
There are only two forces in the world: dollars and literature.
All will pass. Suffering, torment, blood, famine and pestilence. The sword will disappear, but the stars will remain, when the shadow of our bodies and deeds will not remain on the earth. There is not a single person who does not know this. So why don't we want to turn our gaze to them? Why?
By the way, quotes about life
About post-revolutionary life
People are like people. They love money, but this has always been the case... In general, they resemble the old ones... the housing issue only spoiled them.
What is this devastation of yours? This is this: if, entering the restroom, I start, excuse the expression, urinating past the toilet and Zina and Daria Petrovna do the same, devastation will begin in the restroom. Consequently, the devastation is not in the closets, but in the heads. This means that when these baritones shout “beat the destruction!” - I am laughing. This means that each of them must hit themselves in the back of the head! And so, when he hatches all sorts of hallucinations from himself and starts cleaning the barns - his direct business - the devastation will disappear by itself.
You cannot serve two gods! It is impossible to sweep the tram tracks and arrange the fate of some Spanish ragamuffins at the same time!
Dirty apartment.
Revolutionary driving: you drive for an hour and stand for two.
Get in line, you sons of bitches, get in line!
Preobrazhensky: What business did you come to me for? Tell me as soon as possible, I'm going to lunch now. Shvonder: We, the management of the building, came to you after a general meeting of the residents of our building, at which the issue of densifying the apartments of the building was raised... Preobrazhensky: Who stood on whom?..
About life ethics
Never ask for anything! Never and nothing, and especially among those who are stronger than you. They will offer and give everything themselves!
Never. Never pull the lampshade off a lamp! The lampshade is sacred. Never run like a rat into the unknown from danger. Doze by the lampshade, read - let the blizzard howl - wait for them to come to you.
Never talk to strangers.
Thinking cannot be prohibited.
Those who are not in a hurry succeed everywhere.
Each will be given according to his faith.
I have neither profit nor loss from your faith.
There would be chaos, but people would still be there.
Never commit a crime, no matter who it is directed against. Live to old age with clean hands.
Sometimes the best way to destroy a person is to let him choose his own fate.
There is nothing worse, comrades, than cowardice and lack of self-confidence.
About human manifestations
Do you judge by the suit? Never do this. You can make a mistake, and a very big one at that.
Smart people are smart to understand complicated things.
You need to be able to seize good moments and take advantage of them.
The most terrible anger is the anger of powerlessness.
Do you understand how a person who knows that nothing will work out and who must do it can hate?
Insult is a common reward for good work.
The consciousness of your complete, blinding powerlessness must be kept to yourself.
An unhappy person is cruel and callous. And all just because good people mutilated him.
It is enough to chase a person under gunfire, and he turns into a wise wolf; In place of a very weak and, in really difficult cases, unnecessary mind, a wise animal instinct grows.
Destruction is pleasant, but the impunity associated with it causes frenzied delight in a person.
About food and nutrition
There is only one freshness - the first, and it is also the last. And if the sturgeon is second freshness, then this means that it is rotten!
Preobrazhensky: If you care about your digestion, my good advice is not to talk about Bolshevism and medicine at dinner. And - God forbid - don’t read Soviet newspapers before lunch. Bormenthal: Hm... But there are no others. Preobrazhensky: Don’t read any.
Food is a tricky thing. You need to be able to eat, and imagine, most people don’t know how to eat at all. You need to not only know what to eat, but also when and how.
Cold appetizers and soup are eaten only by landowners who were undercut by the Bolsheviks. A more or less self-respecting person handles hot snacks.
Sir, if you had seen what this sausage is made from, you would not have come near the store.
For mercy's sake... would I allow myself to pour vodka for the lady? This is pure alcohol!
By the way, quotes about food
About people
Man is a complex and therefore difficult being for himself.
There are no evil people in the world, there are only unhappy people.
A person without a surprise inside, in his box, is uninteresting.
Why, after all, do I have to come up with an excuse for every action I take?
For twenty whole years a person does something, for example, reads Roman law, and on the twenty-first - it suddenly turns out that Roman law has nothing to do with it, that he doesn’t even understand it and doesn’t like it, but in fact he is a subtle gardener and burns with love to the flowers. This happens, one must assume, from the imperfection of our social system, in which people often find themselves in their place only towards the end of their lives.
No force can silence the crowd until it exhales everything that has accumulated inside it and falls silent itself.
By the way, quotes about people
About writing and writers
Manuscripts don't burn.
The writer will always be in opposition to politics as long as politics itself is in opposition to culture.
“You are not Dostoevsky,” said the citizen, confused by Koroviev. “Well, who knows, who knows,” he answered. “Dostoevsky died,” said the citizen, but somehow not very confidently. “I protest,” Behemoth exclaimed hotly. - Dostoevsky is immortal!
A writer is not determined by his ID, but by what he writes!
The fight against censorship, whatever it may be and under whatever government it exists, is my duty as a writer, as well as calls for freedom of the press. I am an ardent admirer of this freedom and believe that if any writer were to try to prove that he does not need it, he would be like a fish publicly assuring that it does not need water.
About women and men
It is impossible for a squadron to go on a campaign without women.
Cinema is the only consolation in life for women.
These women are difficult people!
And the Lord came up with a toy - women's eyes.
After all the magic and miracles of this evening, she already guessed who exactly they were taking her 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.
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.
By the way, quotes about women and quotes about men
About ball
Yesterday cats were strangled, strangled...
I humbly ask you not to offer beer to Sharikov.
Let's go eat something. Well, they're in the swamp.
“I can’t stay without food,” he muttered, “where will I eat?”
What kind of comrades we are to you! Where else? We understand, sir! We did not study at universities. We didn’t live in apartments with 15 rooms and bathrooms.
This is what happens when a researcher, instead of going parallel and groping with nature, forces the question and lifts the veil: here, get Sharikov and eat him with porridge.
About truth and lies
It is easy and pleasant to speak the truth.
Honesty always leads to trouble.
There is only one truth. There are no two truths.
Only through suffering does truth come... This is true, rest assured! But for knowledge of the truth they do not pay any money or give rations. Sad but true.
Fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
We speak different languages, as always. But the things we are talking about do not change.
By the way, quotes about truth and quotes about lies
About love
He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in the world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!
Love jumped out in front of us, like a killer jumps out of the ground in an alley, and struck us both at once! That's how lightning strikes, that's how a Finnish knife strikes!
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...
By the way, quotes about love
About evil spirits
What would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?
I’m sitting, not bothering anyone, I’m fixing the primus!
I'll cut off your hand! “Azazello shouted menacingly from the saddle to the cook, who, groaning, wanted to raise her hand to make the sign of the cross.
About education
I believe that it is impossible to become an educated person in any educational institution. But in any well-run educational institution, you can become a disciplined person and acquire a skill that will be useful in the future, when a person begins to educate himself outside the walls of the educational institution.
There is absolutely no point in learning to read when you can already smell meat a mile away. Nevertheless, you will, willy-nilly, learn to read and write, without any courses. Of the forty thousand Moscow dogs, perhaps some complete idiot will not be able to form the word “sausage” from letters.
By the way, quotes about education
About money
Maybe money gets in the way of being likable. Here, for example, no one has money and everyone is nice.
I have a place, however, this is far from the most important thing. You also need to be able to receive money.
It was an incomparable smell of freshly printed money.
By the way, quotes about money
About the eyes
These eyes don't lie. After all, how many times have I told you that your main mistake is that you underestimate the value of human eyes. Understand that the tongue can hide the truth, but the eyes can never!
Eyes are a significant thing. Like a barometer. You can see who has a great dryness in their soul, who can poke the toe of a boot into their ribs for no reason, and who is afraid of everyone.
By the way, quotes about eyes
Oh happiness
Happiness is like health: when it is present, you don’t notice it.
The only thing that is innate to people is self-love. And the goal of every person’s life is happiness! What elements make up happiness? Only of two, gentlemen, only of two: a calm soul and a healthy body.
By the way, quotes about happiness
About death
Yes, man is mortal, but that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal, that's the trick!
But it is impossible to send him to Solovki for the reason that he has been in places much more remote than Solovki for over a hundred years, and there is no way to get him out of there, I assure you!
About Russia
In Rus' only one thing is possible: Orthodox faith, autocratic power!
Good lady, there is a wild country, you do not know it, this is Muscovy, a cold and terrible country.
For a Russian person, honor is just an extra burden.
By the way, quotes about Russia
About miscellaneous
Why are you looking at me like that, dear father? There are no patterns on me and flowers don’t grow.
Stop this verbal filth.
You can't sit on a hedgehog with your naked profile!
It's nice to hear that you treat your cat so politely. For some reason, cats are usually called “you,” although not a single cat has ever drunk brotherhood with anyone.
Remember: a person living in Paris should know that the Russian language is only suitable for swearing in unprintable words or, even worse, proclaiming some destructive slogans. Neither one nor the other is accepted in Paris.
My grandmother was a total bore, God bless her, old lady.
Because of you, I was rude to the wrong people!
Why is it necessary to artificially fabricate Spinoza when any woman can give birth to him at any time?
The best and strongest won. And these best ones were terrible.
Give the priests a blue one, so they can serve the devil mass.
This winter is truly endless. You look out the window and want to spit. And there lies, lies gray snow on the roofs. I'm tired of winter!
As we see, Soviet reality, which Bulgakov did not accept, left a bright imprint on his work. But by historical irony, in response, Bulgakov’s very work left a bright imprint on Soviet reality, as we perceive it through his works and quotes. And in my opinion, in this he surpassed, for example, the singer of the Revolution Mayakovsky.
Quotes about Bulgakov
- E. Bulgakova: He had extraordinary bright blue eyes, like the sky, and they always glowed. I have never seen his eyes dull. These were always eyes that burned brightly with interest and greed for life. He loved life madly.
- K. Paustovsky: The whole life of this restless and brilliant writer was, in essence, a merciless battle for the sake of pure human thoughts, for the sake of the fact that a person should be and does not dare not be reasonable and noble. In this struggle, Bulgakov had a devastating weapon in his hands - sarcasm, anger, irony, caustic and precise words. He did not spare his weapons. (by the way, quotes from Konstantin Paustovsky)
- V. Khodasevich: Not only is there not the slightest sympathy for the white cause (which would be complete naivety to expect from a Soviet author), but there is also no sympathy for the people who devoted themselves to this cause or are associated with it. He leaves the lust and rudeness to other authors, but he himself prefers a condescending, almost loving attitude towards his characters.
- A. Solzhenitsyn: Brilliant as the sun, Bulgakov is one of the brightest in all Russian literature.
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About love
He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
Love jumped out in front of us, like a killer jumps out of the ground in an alley, and struck us both at once! That's how lightning strikes, that's how a Finnish knife strikes!
Who said that there is no true, eternal Love in the world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out!
And just imagine, at the same time, someone unexpected, unexpected and externally, God knows what he looks like, inevitably penetrates into my soul, 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...
Letter to the government
After Soviet criticism destroyed Bulgakov's work, he decided to leave the USSR. The writer writes a letter to the government with a request to let him go abroad or provide him with a job at the Moscow Art Theater, since he has run out of money. In this way, Bulgakov hopes to escape persecution and poverty. This is how he explains the purpose of writing this letter in the letter itself:
Goal: to escape persecution, poverty and inevitable death in the finale.
As a result, Bulgakov was accepted into the theater as an assistant director. Having become interested in the fate of the writer, Stalin personally allowed productions of “The Days of the Turbins,” which he had previously considered unworthy of Soviet literature. In 1934, Bulgakov became a member of the USSR Writers' Union.
Deterioration of health
For some time, the writer’s life gets better. But soon failures again begin to haunt Bulgakov. In 1939, the theater production of his play about Stalin was cancelled. Mikhail Afanasyevich's health is deteriorating. Bulgakov can no longer even type on his own. He dictates the ending of The Master and Margarita to his wife Elena.
Despite poor health, Bulgakov managed to survive the Second World War. However, the writer never saw the release of his best novel. Mikhail Bulgakov passed away in 1949. The novel “The Master and Margarita” was published only in 1966.
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Military doctor
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kyiv in 1891. His mother taught at a girls' gymnasium, his father was a teacher at the Kyiv Theological Academy. In addition to Mikhail, there were 6 more children in the family. All the writer's brothers and sisters were younger than him. After graduating from high school, Bulgakov went to study to become a doctor. With the outbreak of the 1914 war, he went to serve in a military hospital.
In 1918, Bulgakov, as part of an officer squad, participated in the defense of Kyiv from the troops of the Directory. In 1919 he was mobilized into the UPR. After some time, Bulgakov became a doctor in the Cossack army, where he contracted typhus.
Having recovered, Mikhail settled in Vladikavkaz. Here he also worked as a doctor. After some time, Bulgakov decided to abandon his medical career and devote himself entirely to writing.
Creation
In 1921, the writer came to Moscow. Some of his works are published in newspapers and magazines. Luck smiles on Bulgakov, he becomes famous. The most fruitful period in the writer’s work was 1924-28. Most of his most famous works were published during this time.
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