"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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"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."
-Jean Cocteau
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."
-Jean Cocteau
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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?"
-Jean Cocteau
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"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."
-Susan Smith
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"Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip."
-Scott Peterson
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"It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music."
-Walter Murphy
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"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses."
-Robert Williams Buchanan
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"Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad."
-Mitch Miller
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"It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge."
-Soledad O'Brien
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