{"author":"Alfred de Musset","author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["christianity","religion","sin"],"id":2502,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["decadence","decadent","god","life"],"id":58096,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"One must not trifle with love.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["must","trifle "],"id":105185,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["happy","sad","sorrow"],"id":147368,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["artists","creativity","decadence","decadent"],"id":151151,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["devil","liberty","patriotism","temptation"],"id":221167,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["experience"],"id":243806,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["language","romanticism","writing"],"id":256411,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["true","memorable","three "],"id":281182,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"},{"text":"Christianity ruined emperors  but saved peoples.","author":"Alfred de Musset","tags":["christianity"],"id":299715,"author_id":"Alfred+de+Musset"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}