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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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