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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.

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
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Kingdom
Kingdoms
Mines
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Joy
Giving
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It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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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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... 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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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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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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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
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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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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 am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
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