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Helen Keller
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Born 1880 in Tuscumbia · Died 1968 in Easton
writer, essayist · United States
Notable works: The Story of My Life, The Frost King
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- The Story of My Life1903 / Project Gutenberg edition · 1903 · Read here →
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The Story of My Life
From Project Gutenberg e-text #2397 (public domain in the USA).
Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge--broad, deep knowledge--is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist.