{"author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["fate","master-and-margarita","mikhail-bulgakov"],"id":286,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["eyes","lies","tongue","truth"],"id":24509,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["blood","death","life","rebirth"],"id":28276,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["truth"],"id":38304,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["creativity","freedom","writer"],"id":41678,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["bulgakov","destiny","fate","free-will"],"id":62190,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["humor","satire"],"id":65924,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"A book is open in front of me and this is what it has tosay about the symptoms of morphine withdrawal:'... Morbid anxiety, a nervous depressed condition,irritability, weakening of the memory, occasionalhallucinations and a mild impairment of consciousness...'I have not experienced any hallucinations, but I canonly say that the rest of this description is dull, pedestrianand totally inadequate.'Depressed condition' indeed!Having suffered from this appalling malady, I hereby enjoinall doctors to be more compassionate toward theirpatients. What overtakes the addict deprived of morphinefor a mere hour or two is not a 'depressed condition': it isslow death. Air is insubstantial, gulping it down is useless... There is not a cell in one's body that does not crave... But crave what? This is something which defies analysisand explanation. In short, the individual ceases to exist:he is eliminated. The body which moves, agonises andsuffers is a corpse. It wants nothing, can think of nothingbut morphine. To die of thirst is a heavenly, blissful deathcompared with the craving for morphine. The feeling mustbe something like that of a man buried alive, clawing at theskin on his chest in the effort to catch the last tiny bubblesof air in his coffin, or of a heretic at the stake, groaning andwrithing as the first tongues of flame lick at his feet.Death. A dry, slow death. That is what lurks behindthat clinical, academic phrase 'a depressed condition'.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["addiction","morphine"],"id":83189,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"You were right,' said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, 'when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["existence"],"id":85996,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"},{"text":"I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefactor of mankind. The pain stopped seven minutes after the injection. Interesting: the pain passed over me in ceaseless waves, so that I had to gasp for breath, as though a red-hot crowbar were being thrust into my stomach and rotated. Four minutes after the injection I was able to distinguish the wave-like nature of the pain.","author":"Mikhail Bulgakov","tags":["addiction","pain","suffering"],"id":108757,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bulgakov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}