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!
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.
Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.