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With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.
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With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.
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Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.
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My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical colour and sound; but without colour and sound it breathes and throbs with life.