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It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Poet
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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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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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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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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