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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
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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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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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In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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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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Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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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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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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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
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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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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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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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