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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its myster

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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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau

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Luck
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Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry
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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. – Groucho Marx

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. – Plato

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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, hed lie just to keep his hand in. – Harry S. Truman

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Great and good are seldom the same man. – Winston Churchill

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