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Helen Keller

1880–1968

Writer who was not only a miracle

The world is full of suffering, and of the overcoming of it. She became a public symbol and then a socialist, which the symbol often leaves out. The sentence is from Optimism, an essay, and she meant both clauses.

In the canon

  1. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Optimism

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