What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

—Helen Keller

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home...

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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

—Helen Keller

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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

—Helen Keller

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

—Helen Keller

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When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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A piece of me is gone. I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.

—Melina Marchetta in Saving Francesca

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Although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things—time and an emotional replacement—to fully mend one.

—Emily Giffin in Love the One You're With

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What they don't know is, no matter how they decide, they can't penalize me more than I'm already punishing myself.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath

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Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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