The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. - Walter Savage Landor

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The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.

Walter Savage Landor

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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