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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
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Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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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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I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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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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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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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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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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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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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 great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? 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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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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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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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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