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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

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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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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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Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
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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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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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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
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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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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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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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we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.
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Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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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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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
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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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if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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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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