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To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.
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
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Writer
Alive
Enough
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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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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I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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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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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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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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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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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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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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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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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
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