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Quotation of the Day for July 4, 2011"Near the end of the war he was injured in an explosion which seriously impaired his vision. Told that his loss of sight would eventually be total, he decided to return to more familiar surroundings in France to continue his study of music and to prepare himself to leave the world of the sighted. "The sight of a pin," he wrote, "a hair, a leaf, a glass of water - these filled me with tremendous excitement. The plants in the courtyards, the cobble stones, the lamp posts, the faces of strangers. I no longer took them in and bound them up in me. They retained their values, their identities. I went out to them, immersed myself in them and found them more beautiful than I ever dreamed they could be. They taught, they nourished, when one gave oneself to them." - Robert Ellsberg, profiling John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me. From the article "One Man Who Took The Great Gamble" in The Catholic Worker. Submitted by: Kathleen Magone Jun. 6, 2011  |
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