Once I knew only darkness a... by Helen Keller, an American Author

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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

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Name: Helen Keller

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jun 27, 1880

Date of Death: Jun 1, 1968

Profession: Author

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