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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.
Katherine Mansfield
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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
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Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
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if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.
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... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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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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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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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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Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. 'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.
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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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Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
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