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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
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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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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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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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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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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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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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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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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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.
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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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Outside the sky is light with stars
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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