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Read & copy the quotation
“I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present,—not cold, but warm; not bare, but furnished with a thousand blessings.”
- Source
- Optimism: An Essay
- Date
- 1903
Meaning of “I do live in a beautiful dream; but…”
Her optimism is located in attention to the actual present and the blessings she perceives there, not in denial of present reality.
Where does it come from?
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. Keller immediately goes on to reject optimism that ignores evil or suffering.
