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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
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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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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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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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England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.
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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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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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If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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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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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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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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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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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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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The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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