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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Recluse
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Read
Write
Nothing
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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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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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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Outside the sky is light with stars
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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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Do you remember your childhood? I am always coming across these marvelous accounts by writers who declare that they remember 'everything.' I certainly don't. The dark stretches, the blanks, are much bigger than the bright glimpses. I seem to have spent most of my time like a plant in a cupboard.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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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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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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