The Master and Margarita

during the course of the day,

just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

endow him at birth

casting sidelong glances as he talked

All in all they’re reminiscent of the previous ones… it’s just the housing question that’s spoiled them…”

It’s all variable and conditional, Nikanor Ivanovich.

All will be right, the world is built on that basis.”

You must understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes – never!

I told you that your basic error consists in underestimating the significance of a man’s eyes?

And I was struck not so much by her beauty, as by the extraordinary solitude that no one saw in her eyes!