"Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."
-Jean Cocteau
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.“
-Jean Cocteau
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"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
-Jean Cocteau
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"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."
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"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
-Jean Cocteau
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"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
-Jude Law
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"God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God."
-Ramakrishna
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"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
-Lenny Kravitz
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"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
-Ovid
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"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline."
-William Hague
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"It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core."
-Phyllis Diller
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