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Manuscripts don't burn.
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Manuscripts do not burn.
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No documents, no person.
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Documents
Persons
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A dog's spirit dies hard.
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Dies
Dog
Spirit
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Difficult folk, these women!
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Women
Difficult
Folks
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Cowardice is the greatest sin.
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Cowardice
Sin
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Literature has become my life.
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Literature
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Why try to pursue what is completed?
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Pursue
Trying
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He who never hurries is always on time.
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Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.
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Cowardice
Terrible
Vices
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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
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Easy
Speak
Truth Is
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Remove the document—and you remove the man.
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Men
Bureaucracy
Remove
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The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
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Eye
May
Tongue
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Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
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Compelled
Constraints
Submit
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and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.
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Facts
Stubborn
World
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No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.
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Fate
Interest
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Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
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Margarita
Turns
World
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Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.
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Fixing
Touching
Trouble
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There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
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Loss
Reason
World
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The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.
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Enough
Most Amazing
Results
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Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
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Stopping
Wells
Witchcraft
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There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last
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Degrees
Firsts
Lasts
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the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless
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Fearless
Made
Manage
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I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.
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Educated
Educational
Institutions
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But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the who is loved.
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Done
Fate
Share
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he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.
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Forget
Rectify
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If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
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Dog
Guilty
Vices
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I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
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Cat
Challenges
Sailing
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He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia
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Clever
People
Smart
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The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.
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Cities
Covered
Darkness
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just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
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Allies
Fronts
Murderer
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For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.
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Cat
Drunk
Reason
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You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
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Margarita
Powerful
Should
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What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
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Evil
Looks
Shadow
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Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.
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Different
Variety
Visitors
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
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Different
Doe
Usual
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Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.
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Men
Animal
Suggestions
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Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off
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Naked
Skins
Worry
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Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!
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Cutting
Liars
Real
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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!
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Men
Half
Would Be
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Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.
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Children
Long
Once Upon A Time
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust
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Heart
Sadness
Sweet
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Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
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Jobs
Men
Old Things
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Don't be afraid, Queen ... don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long since gone into the earth. And where it was spilled, grapevines are already growing.
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Queens
Blood
Gone
Long
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Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
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Cowardice
Philosopher
Vices
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I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.
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Looks
Passion
People
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Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.
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Giving
Offers
Stronger
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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?
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Men
Believe
Mad
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This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.
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Girl
Boys
Years
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You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
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Masters
Mean
Said
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