Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. 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. β¨ The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.
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