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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
Diarist
Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Writer
Alive
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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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 pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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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 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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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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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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