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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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There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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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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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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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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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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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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 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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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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The mind I love must have wild places.
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
Katherine Mansfield
There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
Katherine Mansfield
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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