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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.
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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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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The mind I love must have wild places.
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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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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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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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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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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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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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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? 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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