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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
Stars
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.
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The mind I love must have wild places.
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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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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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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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What happiness it is to listen to rain at night joyful relief, ease a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
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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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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.
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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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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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There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
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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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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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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 long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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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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September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.
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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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