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The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.
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Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
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There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.
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My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical colour and sound; but without colour and sound it breathes and throbs with life.
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The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.
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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.
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With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.
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the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart
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The words are Keller's, but two things in the popular version are not. The wording is smoothed -- it usually appears as they must be felt with the heart -- and, more importantly, Keller does not present the thought as her own: she writes that her teacher explained it to her. On her own account the sentence belongs at least as much to Anne Sullivan.