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In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

Helen Keller
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles…

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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart

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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

- Helen Keller
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