“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my bookfriends. 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 Primary source“I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
— Helen Keller Primary source• Title: The Story of My Life
• Author: Helen Keller
• Type: Book
• Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
• Publication time: 1903
• Publication place: New York, United States
• Link: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/helen-keller/the-story-of-my-life
Old Age
We shall fight on the beaches (June 4, 1940)
Winston Churchill
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (1920)
Albert Einstein
Civilization (1870)
Ralph Waldo Emerson