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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
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
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Writer
Alive
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Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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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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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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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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... 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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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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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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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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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.
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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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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
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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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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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