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I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
Diarist
Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Writer
Woman
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I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.
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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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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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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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The mind I love must have wild places.
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.
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The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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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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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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