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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern

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Barbara Kingsolver
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Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1955; activity date not established; Wikidata Q1264643, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1264643 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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