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Books · 1938

Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

— Virginia Woolf ‧ Three Guineas

Round spectacles rest on a mossy branch, reflecting a green meadow in one lens and a golden sunset in the other.
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We all look at the same world, but never from the same place. Because of that, one person's help can't match what people can do for themselves. The difference between viewpoints is exactly what makes the help worth having.

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