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Katherine Mansfield Inspirational Quotes (77)

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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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The mind I love must have wild places.
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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What happiness it is to listen to rain at night joyful relief, ease a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.
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