
fiction·classic·
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967
Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.
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What did The Master and Margarita leave in you?
One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.
Live proof
The line you carried will sit here, in print.
From the margins
10 lines · sorted by underlines · offline shelf
- CarriedNo. HTE4WB
Manuscripts don't burn. Neither do the people who keep writing them.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byDmitri27 JUN 2026 - CarriedNo. B9VSN3
The devil arrives in Moscow and the only honest man is a cat. Checks out.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byIlan27 JAN 2026 - CarriedNo. D8LZIT
Pilate's migraine never cured. Two thousand years of not returning calls.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byPetra24 MAR 2026 - CarriedNo. YXD5KS
The Variety Theater's black magic show, Moscow lost its hats and its minds in one evening.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byLucy26 APR 2026 - CarriedNo. WRPBAK
Behemoth's chess game and drink order. Every great book deserves a fat cat with a pistol.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byTheo30 JUN 2026 - CarriedNo. ECQ4DA
Woland's ball of a hundred dead, hospitality, underworld edition.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byFarah01 AUG 2026 - CarriedNo. NE5AAC
Cowardice is the worst vice. Pilate's whole biography in two words.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byOmar02 SEP 2026 - CarriedNo. BYKBCV
They burned the manuscript and the fourth dimension kept a copy.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byAmir06 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. 1LGRKC
Written in secret, published thirty years late. Bureaucracy can't even kill a novel properly.
Carried out ofThe Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov · 1967not yet underlinedCarried byVera24 OCT 2026