"'For instance, do you see this chunk of land, washed on one side by the ocean? Look, it's filling with fire. A war has started there. If you look closer, you'll see the details.'
"Margarita leaned towards the globe and saw the little square of land spread out, get painted in many colors, and turn as it were into a relief map. And then she saw the little ribbon of a river, and some village near it. A little house the size of a pea grow and became the size of a matchbox. Suddenly and noiselessly the roof of this house flew up along with a cloud of black smoke, and the walls collapsed, so that nothing was left of the little two-storey box except a small heap with black smoke pouring from it. Bringing her eye still closer, Margarita made out a small female figure lying on the ground, and next to her, in a pool of blood, a little child with outstretched arms.
"'That's it,' Woland said, smiling, 'he had no time to sin. Abaddon's work is impeccable.... He is of a rare impartiality and sympathizes equally with both sides of the fight. Owing to that, the results are always the same for both sides'," - The Master and Margarita.
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