Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Interpretation
Witchcraft symbolizes uncontrollable events, emphasizing how certain actions, once initiated, become irreversible.
This quote by Mikhail Bulgakov suggests that once people engage in certain behaviors or actions—like witchcraft—they often lead to unpredictable and uncontrollable consequences. It reflects on the nature of human actions and the complexities of morality and consequence, highlighting how some paths, once taken, cannot be undone or halted, much like the spread of witchcraft in society.
In practice
In a discussion about history and its constant repetition, this quote highlights the caution needed when initiating drastic changes.
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Literature has become my life.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.
I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
One day/_x000D_ One day I waited for myself/_x000D_ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/_x000D_ So I could know just who I am/_x000D_ I who know others.
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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