A glowing brass lantern sits partly submerged in dark water, casting golden reflections across the ripples.

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Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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Keller says what others call darkness is golden to her. From there she finds happiness. In her view she perceives a world made by God rather than by people, so the darkness becomes a source of joy instead of a loss.

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