The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
The Story of My Life: With Her Letters (1887-1901) and a Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of Her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy
At nineteen months, a fever stole Helen Keller's sight, hearing, and speech, plunging her into a world without names. This is the account of how she escaped that silence. Written with startling clarity and sensory precision, Keller's memoir traces her education under Anne Sullivan, the young teacher who arrived when Keller was seven and, through patient fingerspelling at a water pump, unlocked the mystery of language. What follows is extraordinary: a girl who could not see or hear learning to read, to speak, to graduate from Radcliffe cum laude. But the book's heart lies in its smaller moments - Keller's description of learning that objects have names, her joy at understanding her mother's kiss, the fierce companionship with Sullivan that spanned decades. This is not merely a story of overcoming disability; it is a meditation on what it means to enter language, to be named, to move from isolation into the company of human thought.
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.””
— Helen Keller
“Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.””
— Helen Keller
“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.””
— Helen Keller
“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. 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. 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
“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.””
— Helen Keller
“I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.””
— Helen Keller
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.””
— Helen Keller
“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.””
— Helen Keller
“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.””
— Helen Keller
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