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I read "King Lear" soon after "Macbeth," and I shall never forget the feeling of horror when I came to the scene in which Gloster's eyes are put out. Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.

— Helen Keller

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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Optimism (1903)

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)

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