My life story

My life story (her letters between 1887-1901 and letters with her teacher, and reports from Perkins Institute about her life) Helen Keller "Literature is utopian. In its company, I am not deprived of voicing my voice. No sensory obstacles prevent me from delightful, charming conversation with my books. They speak to me without confusion or embarrassment. The things I have learned, and the things I have been taught seem less important in a way that makes one laugh, compared to what books bestow of 'great love connections and heavenly gifts.' 'Knowledge is power.' Rather; knowledge is happiness, for to possess knowledge means to distinguish the true from the false, and the noble things from the trivial. To know the ideas and crafts that marked the course of humanity means to feel the beating heart of mankind across centuries, and if one does not sense in those beats the striving towards higher realms; then surely, a burden has deafened one's hearing to the harmonies of life."