{"author":"Alexander Pushkin","author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["bliss","gift","grief","habits","hope","optimistic","pessimistic"],"id":12869,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"How sad, however, if we're givenOur youth as something to betray,And what if youth in turn is drivenTo cheat on us, each hour, each day,If our most precious aspirations,Our freshest dreams, imaginationsIn fast succession have decayed,As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade.It is too much to see before oneNothing but dinners in a row,Behind the seemly crowd to go,Regarding life as mere decorum,Having no common views to share,Nor passions that one might declare.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["age","youth"],"id":17558,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"With belles no longer did he fall in love,but dangled after them just anyhow;when they refused, he solaced in a twinkle;when they betrayed, was glad to rest.He would seek them without intoxication,while he left them without regret,hardly remembering their love and spite.Exactly thus does an indifferent guestdrive up for evening whist:sits down; then, once the game is over,he drives off from the place,at home falls peacefully asleep,and in the morning does not know himself where he will drive to in the evening.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["indifference","love","peace","sleep"],"id":22041,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"In alien lands I keep the bodyOf ancient native rites and things:I gladly free a little birdieAt celebration of the spring.I'm now free for consolation,And thankful to almighty Lord:At least, to one of his creationsI've given freedom in this world!","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["bird","freedom","little"],"id":32506,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["death","desire","dreams","grief","heart","lonliness","numbness","poetry"],"id":43250,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["riches","wealth"],"id":61386,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["hypocrisy","society"],"id":68310,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"Recalling former years’ romances,Recalling love that time enhances,With tenderness, with not a care,Alive, at liberty once more,We drank, in mute intoxication,The breath of the indulgent night!Just as a sleepy convict mightBe carried from incarcerationInto a greenwood, so were weBorne to our youth by reverie.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["memory"],"id":72585,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"I gaze forward without fear.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["fear","fearless"],"id":96409,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["hard-hearted","revolution","russian-literature","russian-revolution"],"id":117833,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}