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But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing.

I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking-passionate curiosity and expectation. Then I become an exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another.

And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. “Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This:įor indeed my life is a perpetual question mark-my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions.